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E$_{7(7)}$ Exceptional Field Theory in Superspace

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-01-30 v1

Abstract

We formulate the locally supersymmetric E7(7)_{7(7)} exceptional field theory in a (4+5632)(4+56|32) dimensional superspace, corresponding to a 4D N ⁣= ⁣8N\!=\!8 "external" superspace augmented with an "internal" 56-dimensional space. This entails the unification of external diffeomorphisms and local supersymmetry transformations into superdiffeomorphisms. The solutions to the superspace Bianchi identities lead to on-shell duality equations for the pp-form field strengths for p4p\leq 4. The reduction to component fields provides a complete description of the on-shell supersymmetric theory. As an application of our results, we perform a generalized Scherk-Schwarz reduction and obtain the superspace formulation of maximal gauged supergravity in four dimensions parametrized by an embedding tensor.

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@article{arxiv.1811.00038,
  title  = {E$_{7(7)}$ Exceptional Field Theory in Superspace},
  author = {Daniel Butter and Henning Samtleben and Ergin Sezgin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.00038},
  year   = {2019}
}

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42 pages

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