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The N=8 Supergravity Hamiltonian as a Quadratic Form

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We conjecture that the light-cone Hamiltonian of N=8 Supergravity can be expressed as a quadratic form. We explain why this rewriting is unique to maximally supersymmetric theories. The N=8 quartic interaction vertex is constructed and used to verify that this conjecture holds to second order in the coupling constant.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0607019,
  title  = {The N=8 Supergravity Hamiltonian as a Quadratic Form},
  author = {Sudarshan Ananth and Lars Brink and Rainer Heise and Harald G. Svendsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0607019},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

23 pages, minor corrections in appendix C