Real forms of extended Kac-Moody symmetries and higher spin gauge theories

DOI10.1007/S10714-012-1369-9zbMATH Open1246.83221OpenAlexW3121925401WikidataQ59307600 ScholiaQ59307600MaRDI QIDQ444095FDOQ444095

Authors Marc Henneaux, Hermann Nicolai, Axel Kleinschmidt 

Publication date 13 August 2012

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.4460

zbMATH Keywords

dualityKac-Moody algebrashidden symmetries(super-)gravityhigher spin theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Supergravity (83E50) Lie algebras of linear algebraic groups (17B45)

Abstract: We consider the relation between higher spin gauge fields and real Kac-Moody Lie algebras. These algebras are obtained by double and triple extensions of real forms g_0 of the finite-dimensional simple algebras g arising in dimensional reductions of gravity and supergravity theories. Besides providing an exhaustive list of all such algebras, together with their associated involutions and restricted root diagrams, we are able to prove general properties of their spectrum of generators with respect to a decomposition of the triple extension of g_0 under its gravity subalgebra gl(D,R). These results are then combined with known consistent models of higher spin gauge theory to prove that all but finitely many generators correspond to non-propagating fields and there are no higher spin fields contained in the Kac-Moody algebra.

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