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Supersymmetric E$_{7(7)}$ Exceptional Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-19 v2

Abstract

We give the supersymmetric extension of exceptional field theory for E7(7)_{7(7)}, which is based on a (4+56)(4+56)-dimensional generalized spacetime subject to a covariant constraint. The fermions are tensors under the local Lorentz group SO(1,3)×SU(8){\rm SO}(1,3)\times {\rm SU}(8) and transform as scalar densities under the E7(7)_{7(7)} (internal) generalized diffeomorphisms. The supersymmetry transformations are manifestly covariant under these symmetries and close, in particular, into the generalized diffeomorphisms of the 56-dimensional space. We give the fermionic field equations and prove supersymmetric invariance. We establish the consistency of these results with the recently constructed generalized geometric formulation of D=11D=11 supergravity.

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@article{arxiv.1406.3235,
  title  = {Supersymmetric E$_{7(7)}$ Exceptional Field Theory},
  author = {Hadi Godazgar and Mahdi Godazgar and Olaf Hohm and Hermann Nicolai and Henning Samtleben},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.3235},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

38 pages + appendices; published version (JHEP)

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