Eleven dimensional supergravity as a constrained topological field theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-09-06 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We describe a new first-order formulation of D=11 supergravity which shows that that theory can be understood to arise from a certain topological field theory by the imposition of a set of local constraints on the fields, plus a lagrange multiplier term. The topological field theory is of interest as the algebra of its constraints realizes the D=11 supersymmetry algebra with central charges.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0003285,
title = {Eleven dimensional supergravity as a constrained topological field theory},
author = {Yi Ling and Lee Smolin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0003285},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
15 pages+7, Appendix added