Hidden symmetries and the fermionic sector of eleven-dimensional supergravity
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v3
Abstract
We study the hidden symmetries of the fermionic sector of D=11 supergravity, and the role of K(E10) as a generalised `R-symmetry'. We find a consistent model of a massless spinning particle on an E10/K(E10) coset manifold whose dynamics can be mapped onto the fermionic and bosonic dynamics of D=11 supergravity in the near space-like singularity limit. This E10-invariant superparticle dynamics might provide the basis of a new definition of M-theory, and might describe the `de-emergence' of space-time near a cosmological singularity.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0512163,
title = {Hidden symmetries and the fermionic sector of eleven-dimensional supergravity},
author = {Thibault Damour and Axel Kleinschmidt and Hermann Nicolai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0512163},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
15 pages, v2: updated references and typos corrected, v3: updated references and minor corrections