G^+++ invariant formulation of gravity and M-theories: exact BPS solutions

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2004/01/002zbMATH Open1243.81152arXivhep-th/0311255OpenAlexW2087082406MaRDI QIDQ438336FDOQ438336

Authors: François Englert, Laurent Houart 

Publication date: 30 July 2012

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a tentative formulation of theories of gravity with suitable matter content, including in particular pure gravity in D dimensions, the bosonic effective actions of M-theory and of the bosonic string, in terms of actions invariant under very-extended Kac-Moody algebras G+++. We conjecture that they host additional degrees of freedom not contained in the conventional theories. The actions are constructed in a recursive way from a level expansion for all very-extended algebras G+++. They constitute non-linear realisations on cosets, a priori unrelated to space-time, obtained from a modified Chevalley involution. Exact solutions are found for all G+++. They describe the algebraic properties of BPS extremal branes, Kaluza-Klein waves and Kaluza-Klein monopoles. They illustrate the generalisation to all G+++ invariant theories of the well-known duality properties of string theories by expressing duality as Weyl invariance in G+++. Space-time is expected to be generated dynamically. In the level decomposition of E8+++ = E11, one may indeed select an A10 representation of generators Pa which appears to engender space-time translations by inducing infinite towers of fields interpretable as field derivatives in space and time.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0311255

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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• Gravitational theories coupled to matter as invariant theories under Kac‐Moody algebras
• Poincaré duality and \(G^{+++}\) algebras
• On spinorial representations of involutory subalgebras of Kac-Moody algebras
• Timelike duality, \(M'\)-theory and an exotic form of the Englert solution
• On brane solutions with intersection rules related to Lie algebras
• Gravitational coset models
• Some algebraic aspects of half-BPS bound states in M-theory
• Beyond \(E_{11}\)
• \(E_{10}\) and gauged maximal supergravity
• Real forms of extended Kac-Moody symmetries and higher spin gauge theories
• Counting supersymmetric branes
• An M-theory solution from null roots in \(E_{11}\)
• \(E_{11}\): sign of the times
• \(G^{+++}\) and brane solutions
• The IIA, IIB and eleven-dimensional theories and their common \(E_{11}\) origin
• A master exceptional field theory
• Exotic branes in exceptional field theory: the SL(5) duality group
• Duality symmetries and G ⁺⁺⁺ theories
• Killing spinor equations from nonlinear realisations
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• Bound states of string theory and beyond
• A special class of rank 10 and 11 Coxeter groups
• Spacelike singularities and hidden symmetries of gravity
• \(E_{11}\), ten forms and supergravity
• The different faces of branes in double field theory

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