Maximal supergravity in D=10: forms, Borcherds algebras and superspace cohomology

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2011)146zbMATH Open1298.81289arXiv1103.5053OpenAlexW2087387109MaRDI QIDQ469136FDOQ469136

P. S. Howe, J. Greitz

Publication date: 10 November 2014

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

Abstract: We give a very simple derivation of the forms of $N=2,D=10$ supergravity from supersymmetry and $$ (for IIB). Using superspace cohomology we show that, if the Bianchi identities for the physical fields are satisfied, the (consistent) Bianchi identities for all of the higher-rank forms must be identically satisfied, and that there are no possible gauge-trivial Bianchi identities ($dF=0$) except for exact eleven-forms. We also show that the degrees of the forms can be extended beyond the spacetime limit, and that the representations they fall into agree with those predicted from Borcherds algebras. In IIA there are even-rank RR forms, including a non-zero twelve-form, while in IIB there are non-trivial Bianchi identities for thirteen-forms even though these forms are identically zero in supergravity. It is speculated that these higher-rank forms could be non-zero when higher-order string corrections are included.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.5053

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zbMATH Keywords

extended supersymmetrysupergravity modelssuperspaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functional analysis on superspaces (supermanifolds) or graded spaces (46S60) 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) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Supergravity (83E50)

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