Quantum supersymmetric cosmology and its hidden Kac-Moody structure

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/16/162001zbMATH Open1273.83160arXiv1304.6381OpenAlexW1963770358MaRDI QIDQ2851389FDOQ2851389

Authors: Thibault Damour, Philippe Spindel 

Publication date: 10 October 2013

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the quantum dynamics of a supersymmetric squashed three-sphere by dimensionally reducing (to one timelike dimension) the action of D=4 simple supergravity for an SO(3)-homogeneous (Bianchi IX) cosmological model. The quantization of the homogeneous gravitino field leads to a 64-dimensional fermionic Hilbert space. The algebra of the supersymmetry constraints and of the Hamiltonian one is found to close. One finds that the quantum Hamiltonian is built from operators that generate a 64-dimensional representation of the (infinite-dimensional) maximally compact sub-algebra of the rank-3 hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebra AE_3. Some exponentials of these operators generate a spinorial extension of the Weyl group of AE_3 which describe (in the small wavelength limit) the chaotic quantum evolution of the universe near the cosmological singularity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.6381

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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