Local E₁₁ and the gauging of the trombone symmetry

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/27/12/125009MaRDI QIDQ3575146zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fabio Riccioni

Publication date 7 July 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.1316

zbMATH Keywords

\(W\)-algebras and other current algebras and their representationsincluding Virasoroinfinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physicsKac-MoodyKac-Moody (super)algebras (structure and representation theory)supergravitysupersymmetric field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supergravity (83E50)

Abstract: In any dimension, the positive level generators of the very-extended Kac-Moody algebra $E_{11}$ with completely antisymmetric spacetime indices are associated to the form fields of the corresponding maximal supergravity. We consider the local $E_{11}$ algebra, that is the algebra obtained enlarging these generators of $E_{11}$ in such a way that the global $E_{11}$ symmetries are promoted to gauge symmetries. These are the gauge symmetries of the corresponding massless maximal supergravity. We show the existence of a new type of deformation of the local $E_{11}$ algebra, which corresponds to the gauging of the symmetry under rescaling of the fields. In particular, we show how the gauged IIA theory of Howe, Lambert and West is obtained from an eleven-dimensional group element that only depends on the eleventh coordinate via a linear rescaling. We then show how this results in ten dimensions in a deformed local $E_{11}$ algebra of a new type.

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