On eleven-dimensional supergravity and Chern-Simons theory

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DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.10.012zbMATH Open1229.81240arXiv1103.2182OpenAlexW2087693574MaRDI QIDQ659417FDOQ659417


Authors: Fernando Izaurieta, Eduardo Rodríguez Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 18 January 2012

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We probe in some depth into the structure of eleven-dimensional, osp(32|1)-based Chern-Simons supergravity, as put forward by Troncoso and Zanelli (TZ) in 1997. We find that the TZ Lagrangian may be cast as a polynomial in 1/l, where l is a length, and compute explicitly the first three dominant terms. The term proportional to 1/l^9 turns out to be essentially the Lagrangian of the standard 1978 supergravity theory of Cremmer, Julia and Scherk, thus establishing a previously unknown relation between the two theories. The computation is nontrivial because, when written in a sufficiently explicit way, the TZ Lagrangian has roughly one thousand non-explicitly Lorentz-covariant terms. Specially designed algebraic techniques are used to accomplish the results.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2182




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