PIRSA:21110006

Twisted eleven-dimensional supergravity and exceptional Lie algebras

Saberi, I. (2021). Twisted eleven-dimensional supergravity and exceptional Lie algebras. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/21110006

Saberi, Ingmar. Twisted eleven-dimensional supergravity and exceptional Lie algebras. Perimeter Institute, Nov. 05, 2021, https://pirsa.org/21110006 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:21110006,
            doi = {10.48660/21110006},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/21110006},
            author = {Saberi, Ingmar},
            keywords = {Mathematical physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {Twisted eleven-dimensional supergravity and exceptional Lie algebras},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2021},
            month = {nov},
            note = {PIRSA:21110006 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Ingmar Saberi Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitiät München (LMU)

DOI 10.48660/21110006
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

In recent years, there has been a great deal of progress on ideas related to twisted supergravity, building on the definition given by Costello and Li. Much of what is explicitly known about these theories comes from the topological B-model, whose string field theory conjecturally produces the holomorphic twist of type IIB supergravity. Progress on eleven-dimensional supergravity has been hindered, in part, by the lack of such a worldsheet approach. I will discuss a rigorous computation of the twist of the free eleven-dimensional supergravity multiplet, as well as an interacting BV theory with this field content that passes a large  number of consistency checks. Surprisingly, the resulting holomorphic theory on flat space is closely related to the infinite-dimensional exceptional simple Lie superalgebra E(5,10). This is joint work with Surya Raghavendran and Brian Williams.

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