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Twisted eleven-dimensional supergravity

Mathematical Physics 2023-07-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Representation Theory

Abstract

We construct a fully interacting holomorphic/topological theory in eleven dimensions that is defined on products of Calabi-Yau fivefolds with real one-manifolds. The theory describes a particular deformation of the cotangent bundle to the moduli space of Calabi-Yau structures on the fivefold. Its field content matches the holomorphic (or minimal) twist of the eleven-dimensional supergravity multiplet recently computed by the second two authors, and we offer numerous consistency checks showing that the interactions correctly describe interacting twisted eleven-dimensional supergravity at the perturbative level. We prove that the global symmetry algebra of our model on flat space is an LL_\infty central extension of the infinite-dimensional simple exceptional super Lie algebra E(5,10)E(5,10), following a recent suggestion of Cederwall in the context of the relevant pure spinor model. Twists of superconformal algebras map to the fields of our model on the complement of a stack of M2 or M5 branes, laying the groundwork for a fully holomorphic version of twisted holography in this context.

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@article{arxiv.2111.03049,
  title  = {Twisted eleven-dimensional supergravity},
  author = {Surya Raghavendran and Ingmar Saberi and Brian R. Williams},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.03049},
  year   = {2023}
}

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58 pages. Comments welcome!

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