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Holographic Formulation of Quantum Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We show that N=1{\cal N}=1 supergravity with a cosmological constant can be expressed as constrained topological field theory based on the supergroup Osp(14)Osp(1|4). The theory is then extended to include timelike boundaries with finite spatial area. Consistent boundary conditions are found which induce a boundary theory based on a supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory. The boundary state space is constructed from states of the boundary supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory on the punctured two sphere and naturally satisfies the Bekenstein bound, where area is measured by the area operator of quantum supergravity.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0009018,
  title  = {Holographic Formulation of Quantum Supergravity},
  author = {Yi Ling and Lee Smolin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0009018},
  year   = {2009}
}

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30 pages, no figure

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