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11D Supergravity and Hidden Symmetries

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-11-17 v2

Abstract

We review the structure of maximal D=11D=11 and D=10D=10 supergravities. Upon dimensional reduction, these theories give rise to the unique maximal supergravities in all lower spacetime dimensions D<10D<10. In DD dimensions, maximal supergravity exhibits the exceptional global symmetry group E11D_{11-D}, part of which is realized as hidden symmetries and only manifest after proper dualization of the fields. We also briefly review the reformulation of D=11D=11 supergravity as an exceptional field theory which renders the appearance of hidden symmetries manifest.

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@article{arxiv.2303.12682,
  title  = {11D Supergravity and Hidden Symmetries},
  author = {Henning Samtleben},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.12682},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

39 pages, invited chapter for Handbook of Quantum Gravity (Eds. C. Bambi, L. Modesto and I.L. Shapiro, Springer Singapore, expected in 2023); v2: typos corrected, references added

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