Supergravity and the knitting of the Kalb-Ramond two-form in eight-dimensional topological gravity

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00759-7MaRDI QIDQ1396141zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Laurent Baulieu, Alessandro Tanzini, M. Bellon

Publication date 29 June 2003

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0303165

zbMATH Keywords

holonomyKalb-Ramond two-form gauge fieldself-duality conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Supergravity (83E50)

Abstract: Topological euclidean gravity is built in eight dimensions for manifolds with $Spin(7)subsetSO(8)$ holonomy. In a previous work, we considered the construction of an eight-dimensional topological theory describing the graviton and one graviphoton. Here we solve the question of determining a topological model for the combined system of a metric and a Kalb--Ramond two-form gauge field. We then recover the complete $N=1,D=8$ supergravity theory in a twisted form. We observe that the generalized self-duality conditions of our model correspond to the octonionic string equations.

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• Eight-dimensional topological gravity and its correspondence with supergravity
• Topological symmetry of forms, \(N=1\) supersymmetry and S-duality on special manifolds
• The non-commutative \(U(N)\) Kalb-Ramond theory

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