A kind of magic

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA8FE2zbMATH Open1381.83130arXiv1707.02072OpenAlexW3100156286MaRDI QIDQ4601022FDOQ4601022

Authors: L. Borsten, Alessio Marrani 

Publication date: 18 January 2018

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

Abstract: We introduce the extended Freudenthal-Rosenfeld-Tits magic square based on six algebras: the reals $mathbbR$, complexes $mathbbC$, ternions $mathbbT$, quaternions $mathbbH$, sextonions $mathbbS$ and octonions $mathbbO$. The ternionic and sextonionic rows/columns of the magic square yield non-reductive Lie algebras, including $mathfrak{e}_{7scriptscriptstylefrac12}$. It is demonstrated that the algebras of the extended magic square appear quite naturally as the symmetries of supergravity Lagrangians. The sextonionic row (for appropriate choices of real forms) gives the non-compact global symmetries of the Lagrangian for the $D=3$ maximal $mathcalN=16$, magic $mathcalN=4$ and magic non-supersymmetric theories, obtained by dimensionally reducing the $D=4$ parent theories on a circle, with the graviphoton left undualised. In particular, the extremal intermediate non-reductive Lie algebra $ilde{mathfrake}_{7(7)scriptscriptstylefrac12}$ (which is not a subalgebra of $mathfrak{e}_{8(8)}$) is the non-compact global symmetry algebra of $D=3$, $mathcalN=16$ supergravity as obtained by dimensionally reducing $D=4$, $mathcalN=8$ supergravity with $mathfrak{e}_{7(7)}$ symmetry on a circle. The ternionic row (for appropriate choices of real forms) gives the non-compact global symmetries of the Lagrangian for the $D=4$ maximal $mathcalN=8$, magic $mathcalN=2$ and magic non-supersymmetric theories obtained by dimensionally reducing the parent $D=5$ theories on a circle. In particular, the Kantor-Koecher-Tits intermediate non-reductive Lie algebra $mathfrak{e}_{6(6)scriptscriptstylefrac14}$ is the non-compact global symmetry algebra of $D=4$, $mathcalN=8$ supergravity as obtained by dimensionally reducing $D=5$, $mathcalN=8$ supergravity with $mathfrak{e}_{6(6)}$ symmetry on a circle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.02072

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zbMATH Keywords

global symmetriesexceptional algebrassupergravityKaluza-Klein reduction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Supergravity (83E50) Lie algebras of linear algebraic groups (17B45)

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