Dualisation of Dualities, II: Twisted self-duality of doubled fields and superdualities
Abstract
We introduce a doubled formalism for the bosonic sector of the maximal supergravities, in which a Hodge dual potential is introduced for each bosonic field (except for the metric). The equations of motion can then be formulated as a twisted self-duality condition on the total field strength \G, which takes its values in a Lie superalgebra. This doubling is invariant under dualisations; it allows a unification of the gauge symmetries of all degrees, including the usual U-dualities that have degree zero. These ``superdualities'' encompass the dualities for all choices of polarisation (i.e. the choices between fields and their duals). All gauge symmetries appear as subgroups of finite-dimensional supergroups, with Grassmann coefficients in the differential algebra of the spacetime manifold.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9806106,
title = {Dualisation of Dualities, II: Twisted self-duality of doubled fields and superdualities},
author = {E. Cremmer and B. Julia and H. Lu and C. N. Pope},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9806106},
year = {2009}
}
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Latex, 58 pages, minor corrections