Wednesday, January 9, 2013

1301.1346 (Axel Kleinschmidt et al.)

Oxidizing Borcherds symmetries    [PDF]

Axel Kleinschmidt, Jakob Palmkvist
The tensor hierarchy of maximal supergravity in D dimensions is known to be closely related to a Borcherds (super)algebra that is constructed from the global symmetry group E(11-D). We here explain how the Borcherds algebras in different dimensions are embedded into each other and can be constructed from a unifying Borcherds algebra. The construction also has a natural physical explanation in terms of oxidation. We then go on to show that the Hodge duality that is present in the tensor hierarchy has an algebraic counterpart. For D>8 the Borcherds algebras we find differ from the ones existing in the literature although they generate the same tensor hierarchy.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1346

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