M(ysterious) Patterns in SO(9)
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-04-15 v1
Abstract
The light-cone little group, SO(9), classifies the massless degrees of freedom of eleven-dimensional supergravity, with a triplet of representations. We observe that this triplet generalizes to four-fold infinite families with the quantum numbers of massless higher spin states. Their mathematical structure stems from the three equivalent ways of embedding SO(9) into the exceptional group .
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9808190,
title = {M(ysterious) Patterns in SO(9)},
author = {T. Pengpan and P. Ramond},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9808190},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
15 pages, uses article.sty. To appear in Physics Reports in the memory of Richard Slansky