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Gravitational Coset Models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-17 v1

Abstract

The algebra A(D-3)+++ dimensionally reduces to the E(D-1) symmetry algebra of (12-D)-dimensional supergravity. An infinite set of five-dimensional gravitational objects trivially embedded in D-dimensions is constructed by identifying the null geodesic motion on cosets embedded in the generalised Kac-Moody algebra A(D-3)+++. By analogy with supergravity these are bound states of dual gravitons. The metric interpolates continuously between exotic gravitational solutions generated by the action of the Geroch group but is not a continuously transforming solution of the Einstein-Hilbert action. We investigate mixed-symmetry fields in the brane sigma model, identify actions for the full interpolating bound state and understand the obstruction to the bound state being a solution of the Einstein-Hilbert action.

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@article{arxiv.1309.0757,
  title  = {Gravitational Coset Models},
  author = {Paul P. Cook and Michael Fleming},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.0757},
  year   = {2015}
}

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46 pages

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