On the geometry of the supermultiplet in M-theory

DOI10.1142/S0219887811005774zbMATH Open1245.83083arXiv0909.4737MaRDI QIDQ2893167FDOQ2893167

Authors: Hisham Sati 

Publication date: 26 June 2012

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The massless supermultiplet of eleven-dimensional supergravity can be generated from the decomposition of certain representation of the exceptional Lie group F4 into those of its maximal compact subgroup Spin(9). In an earlier paper, a dynamical Kaluza-Klein origin of this observation is proposed with internal space the Cayley plane, OP2, and topological aspects are explored. In this paper we consider the geometric aspects and characterize the corresponding forms which contribute to the action as well as cohomology classes, including torsion, which contribute to the partition function. This involves constructions with bilinear forms. The compatibility with various string theories are discussed, including reduction to loop bundles in ten dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4737

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zbMATH Keywords

Cayley planecharacter formulaM-theorysupersymmetrysymmetric spacesexceptional groupscubic Dirac operatorelliptic genusbosonic string theoryelliptic homology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General properties and structure of complex Lie groups (22E10) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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