M-theory from the superpoint
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Publication:1630342
DOI10.1007/S11005-018-1110-ZzbMATH Open1403.81048arXiv1702.01774OpenAlexW2587257354WikidataQ129631503 ScholiaQ129631503MaRDI QIDQ1630342FDOQ1630342
Authors: John Huerta, Urs Schreiber 
Publication date: 10 December 2018
Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: The "brane scan" classifies consistent Green--Schwarz strings and membranes in terms of the invariant cocycles on super-Minkowski spacetimes. The "brane bouquet" generalizes this by consecutively forming the invariant higher central extensions induced by these cocycles, which yields the complete brane content of string/M-theory, including the D-branes and the M5-brane, as well as the various duality relations between these. This raises the question whether the super-Minkowski spacetimes themselves arise as maximal invariant central extensions. Here we prove that they do. Starting from the simplest possible super-Minkowski spacetime, the superpoint, which has no Lorentz structure and no spinorial structure, we give a systematic process of repeated "maximal invariant central extensions", and show that it discovers the super-Minkowski spacetimes that contain superstrings, culminating in the 10- and 11-dimensional super-Minkowski spacetimes of string/M-theory and leading directly to the brane bouquet.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01774
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