On K(E₉)

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2005.V1.N1.A8MaRDI QIDQ2501375zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Henning Samtleben, Hermann Nicolai

Publication date 6 September 2006

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0407055

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Loop groups and related constructions, group-theoretic treatment (22E67) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70)

Abstract: We study the maximal compact subgroup K(E_9) of the affine Lie group E_9(9) and its on-shell realization as an R symmetry of maximal N=16 supergravity in two dimensions. We first give a rigorous definition of the group K(E_9), which lives on the double cover of the spectral parameter plane, and show that the infinitesimal action of K(E_9) on the chiral components of the bosons and the fermions is determined in terms of an expansion of the Lie algebra of K(E_9) about the two branch points of this cover; this implies in particular that the fermions of N=16 supergravity transform in a spinor representation of K(E_9). The fermionic equations of motion can be fitted into the lowest components of a single K(E_9) covariant `Dirac equation', with the linear system of N=16 supergravity as the gauge connection. These results suggest the existence of an `off-shell' realization of K(E_9) in terms of an infinite component spinor representation. We conclude with some coments on `generalized holonomies' of M theory.

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