E$_{7(7)}$ Exceptional Field Theory in Superspace
Abstract
We formulate the locally supersymmetric E exceptional field theory in a dimensional superspace, corresponding to a 4D "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 -form field strengths for . 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.
Cite
@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