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Supergravity as Generalised Geometry II: Ed(d)×R+E_{d(d)} \times \mathbb{R}^+ and M theory

A. Coimbra,C. Strickland-Constable,D. Waldram

2012 · ArXiv: 1212.1586
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Abstract

We reformulate eleven-dimensional supergravity, including fermions, in terms of generalised geometry, for spacetimes that are warped products of Minkowski space with a dd-dimensional manifold MM with d7d\leq7. The reformation has a Ed(d)×R+E_{d(d)} \times \mathbb{R}^+ structure group and is has a local H~d\tilde{H}_d symmetry, where H~d\tilde{H}_d is the double cover of the maximally compact subgroup of Ed(d)E_{d(d)}. The bosonic degrees for freedom unify into a generalised metric, and, defining the generalised analogue DD of the Levi-Civita connection, one finds that the corresponding equations of motion are the vanishing of the generalised Ricci tensor. To leading order, we show that the fermionic equations of motion, action and supersymmetry variations can all be written in terms of DD. Although we will not give the detailed decompositions, this reformulation is equally applicable to type IIA or IIB supergravity restricted to a (d1)(d-1)-dimensional manifold. For completeness we give explicit expressions in terms of H~4=Spin(5)\tilde{H}_4=\mathit{Spin}(5) and H~7=SU(8)\tilde{H}_7=\mathit{SU}(8) representations for d=4d=4 and d=7d=7.