SO ( 5 , 5 ) duality in M-theory and generalized geometry

2011

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We attempt to reformulate eleven dimensional supergravity in terms of an object that unifies the three-form and the metric and makes the M-theory duality group manifest. This short Letter deals with the case of where the U-duality group SO(5,5) acts in five spatial dimensions.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/518d7b5bf9a4abb2a61de9261a858811e107d20f

Citations in the corpus

• Exotic Branes in String Theory (2012, unknown): “Double field theory (DFT) [20,21] and its U -duality generalizations [22–26] are frameworks Type IIB superstring compactified on T 4 can be truncated to N = 4b supergravity with m = 5, and can be studied in this framework as well.”
• Duality invariant actions and generalised geometry (2011, unknown): “However, as discussed previously in this paper, a different approach was adopted in the papers [34, 35] where one neglected the dependence on the seven dimensions and kept a dependence on the coordinates associated with the upper space.”
• Duality Symmetric String and M-Theory (2013, unknown): “ to an overall rescaling factor of the detg (which can be redefined away should one so desire). This general construction corresponds to the explicit formulations given for the SO(5,5) duality groupin [18], the E7 formulation of Hillmann which is close related to this work [194]. Recent progress towa”
• Double field theory of type II strings (2011, unknown): “Results on reformulations of 11-dimensional supergravity may be relevant, see [34] and [22,27].”
• A ten-dimensional action for non-geometric fluxes (2011, unknown): “8]. Such fluxes are not contained in GCG, which focuses on the NSNS sector, but they could be described in a framework such as Exceptional Generalized Geometry (EGG) [79, 80, 81, 82, 83], or following [84, 85]. It would be interesting to investigate whether there is a field redefinition that would also”
• The spacetime of double field theory: Review, remarks, and outlook (2013, unknown): “The ideas of DFT have also been generalized to various U-duality groups in order to describe truncations of D = 11 supergravity [62–70].”
• Supergravity as generalised geometry I: type II theories (2011, unknown): “Similar actions relevant to restrictions of eleven-dimensional supergravity to lower-dimensional manifolds are discussed in [30] and there are further related works in [31, 32, 33].”
• The effective action of double field theory (2011, unknown): “The concepts of Generalized Complex Geometry [7]-[9], non-geometry [10, 11] and double geometry [12]-[18] were proposed as suitable frameworks to deal with this situation (see also [19, 20] for extensions to M-theory).”
• Duality invariant M-theory: gauged supergravities and Scherk-Schwarz reductions (2012, unknown): “The action for the M–theory equivalent of double field theory has been written down in a series of works (depending on the specific U–duality group) [25, 26, 27, 28, 29].”