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G+++ Invariant Formulation of Gravity and M-Theories: Exact BPS Solutions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present a tentative formulation of theories of gravity with suitable matter content, including in particular pure gravity in D dimensions, the bosonic effective actions of M-theory and of the bosonic string, in terms of actions invariant under very-extended Kac-Moody algebras G+++. We conjecture that they host additional degrees of freedom not contained in the conventional theories. The actions are constructed in a recursive way from a level expansion for all very-extended algebras G+++. They constitute non-linear realisations on cosets, a priori unrelated to space-time, obtained from a modified Chevalley involution. Exact solutions are found for all G+++. They describe the algebraic properties of BPS extremal branes, Kaluza-Klein waves and Kaluza-Klein monopoles. They illustrate the generalisation to all G+++ invariant theories of the well-known duality properties of string theories by expressing duality as Weyl invariance in G+++. Space-time is expected to be generated dynamically. In the level decomposition of E8+++ = E11, one may indeed select an A10 representation of generators Pa which appears to engender space-time translations by inducing infinite towers of fields interpretable as field derivatives in space and time.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0311255,
  title  = {G+++ Invariant Formulation of Gravity and M-Theories: Exact BPS Solutions},
  author = {F. Englert and L. Houart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0311255},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Latex 45 pages, 1 figure. Discussion on pages 19 and 20 altered. Appendix B amplified. 4 footnotes added. 2 references added. Acknowledgments updated. Additional minor corrections