Einstein billiards and overextensions of finite-dimensional simple Lie algebras

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2002/08/030zbMATH Open1226.83083arXivhep-th/0206125OpenAlexW2031301504WikidataQ59307703 ScholiaQ59307703MaRDI QIDQ648874FDOQ648874

Authors: Thibault Damour, Sophie De Buyl, Marc Henneaux, C. Schomblond 

Publication date: 29 November 2011

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

Abstract: In recent papers, it has been shown that (i) the dynamics of theories involving gravity can be described, in the vicinity of a spacelike singularity, as a billiard motion in a region of hyperbolic space bounded by hyperplanes; and (ii) that the relevant billiard has remarkable symmetry properties in the case of pure gravity in $d+1$ spacetime dimensions, or supergravity theories in 10 or 11 spacetime dimensions, for which it turns out to be the fundamental Weyl chamber of the Kac-Moody algebras $A{E}_d$, $E_{10}$, $B{E}_{10}$ or $D{E}_{10}$ (depending on the model). We analyse in this paper the billiards associated to other theories containing gravity, whose toroidal reduction to three dimensions involves coset models $G/H$ (with $G$ maximally non compact). We show that in each case, the billiard is the fundamental Weyl chamber of the (indefinite) Kac-Moody ``overextension (or ``canonical Lorentzian extension) of the finite-dimensional Lie algebra that appears in the toroidal compactification to 3 spacetime dimensions. A remarkable feature of the billiard properties, however, is that they do not depend on the spacetime dimension in which the theory is analyzed and hence are rather robust, while the symmetry algebra that emerges in the toroidal dimensional reduction is dimension-dependent.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0206125

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supergravity (83E50) Applications of Lie algebras and superalgebras to integrable systems (17B80) Unified, higher-dimensional and super field theories (83E99)

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