THE LOOP GROUP OF E8 AND TARGETS FOR SPACETIME

DOI10.1142/S0217732309028746MaRDI QIDQ5322425zbMATHFDO

Authors Hisham Sati

Publication date 21 July 2009

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0701231

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: The dimensional reduction of the E8 gauge theory in eleven dimensions leads to a loop bundle in ten dimensional type IA string theory. We show that the restriction to the Neveu-Schwarz sector leads naturally to a sigma model with target space E8 with the ten-dimensional spacetime as the source. The corresponding bundle has a structure group the group of based loops, whose classifying space we study. We explore some consequences of this proposal such as possible Lagrangians and existence of flat connections.

Recommendations

• \(E_8\) gauge theory and gerbes in string theory
• Non-compact simple Lie group \(E_{8(8)}\)
• There is no ``Theory of everything inside \(\text E_{8}\)
• Loop gauge theory and group cohomology
• \(E_{8}\) duality and dual gravity

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• Duality and cohomology in \(M\)-theory with boundary
• Ninebrane structures
• On the geometry of the supermultiplet in M-theory
• Framed M-branes, corners, and topological invariants
• On the sporadic \(196884\)-dimensional group, strings and \({\mathcal E}^{(\infty)}\) spacetime
• \(E_8\) gauge theory and gerbes in string theory
• Rational sphere valued supercocycles in \(M\)-theory and type IIA string theory

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