The Sirens of Eleven Dimensions
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-11-23 v1
Abstract
While most theorists are tied to the mast of four dimensions, some have found it irresistible to speculate about eleven dimensions, the domain of M-theory. We outline a program which starts from the light-cone description of supergravity, and tracks its divergences to suggest the existence of an infinite component theory which in the light-cone relies on the coset , long known to be linked to the Exceptional Jordan Algebra.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0411024,
title = {The Sirens of Eleven Dimensions},
author = {P. Ramond},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0411024},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Contribution to "From Fields to Strings: Circumnavigating Theoretical Physics", Edited by M. Shifman, A. Vainshtein, and J. Wheater, in memory of Ian Kogan