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Geometric Configurations, Regular Subalgebras of E10 and M-Theory Cosmology

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Group Theory

Abstract

We re-examine previously found cosmological solutions to eleven-dimensional supergravity in the light of the E_{10}-approach to M-theory. We focus on the solutions with non zero electric field determined by geometric configurations (n_m, g_3), n\leq 10. We show that these solutions are associated with rank gg regular subalgebras of E_{10}, the Dynkin diagrams of which are the (line) incidence diagrams of the geometric configurations. Our analysis provides as a byproduct an interesting class of rank-10 Coxeter subgroups of the Weyl group of E_{10}.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0606123,
  title  = {Geometric Configurations, Regular Subalgebras of E10 and M-Theory Cosmology},
  author = {Marc Henneaux and Mauricio Leston and Daniel Persson and Philippe Spindel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0606123},
  year   = {2009}
}

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48 pages, 27 figures, 5 tables, references added, typos corrected