The embedding tensor, Leibniz-Loday algebras, and their higher gauge theories

DOI10.1007/S00220-019-03569-3MaRDI QIDQ2181978zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alexei Kotov, Thomas Strobl

Publication date 20 May 2020

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08611

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Leibniz algebras (17A32) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supergravity (83E50) Universal enveloping (super)algebras (17B35) Bosonic systems in quantum theory (81V73)

Abstract: We show that the data needed for the method of the embedding tensor employed in gauging supergravity theories are precisely those of a Leibniz algebra (with one of its induced quotient Lie algebras embedded into a rigid symmetry Lie algebra that provides an additional "represtentation constraint"). Every Leibniz algebra gives rise to a Lie n-algebra in a canonical way (for every $ninmathbbNcupinfty$). It is the gauging of this $L_{i}nfty$-algebra that explains the tensor hierarchy of the bosonic sector of gauged supergravity theories. The tower of p-from gauge fields corresponds to Lyndon words of the universal enveloping algebra of the free Lie algebra of an odd vector space in this construction. Truncation to some $n$ yields the reduced field content needed in a concrete spacetime dimension.

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