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The Mile High Magic Pyramid

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-06-04 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Rings and Algebras

Abstract

Using a unified formulation of N=1,2,4,8\mathcal{N} = 1, 2, 4, 8, super Yang-Mills theories in D=3D = 3 spacetime dimensions with fields valued respectively in R,C,H,O\mathbb{R, C, H, O}, it was shown that tensoring left and right multiplets yields a Freudenthal magic square of D=3D = 3 supergravities. When tied in with the more familiar R,C,H,O\mathbb{R, C, H, O} description of super Yang-Mills in D=3,4,6,10D = 3, 4, 6, 10 this results in a magic pyramid of supergravities: the known 4×44 \times 4 magic square at the base in D=3D=3, a 3×33\times 3 square in D=4D=4, a 2×22 \times 2 square in D=6D=6 and Type II supergravity at the apex in D=10D=10.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1711.08476,
  title  = {The Mile High Magic Pyramid},
  author = {A. Anastasiou and L. Borsten and M. J. Duff and A. Marrani and S. Nagy and M. Zoccali},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.08476},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Contribution to the proceedings of the 4th Mile High Conference on Nonassociative Mathematics University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA, July 29-August 5, 2017

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