Supergravity and M-Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
Supergravity provides the effective field theories for string compactifications. The deformation of the maximal supergravities by non-abelian gauge interactions is only possible for a restricted class of charges. Generically these `gaugings' involve a hierarchy of p-form fields which belong to specific representations of the duality group. The group-theoretical structure of this p-form hierarchy exhibits many interesting features. In the case of maximal supergravity the class of allowed deformations has intriguing connections with M/string theory.
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@article{arxiv.0901.4519,
title = {Supergravity and M-Theory},
author = {Bernard de Wit and Maaike van Zalk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.4519},
year = {2009}
}
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28 pages, LaTeX file