The N=8 supergravity Hamiltonian as a quadratic form

2006/07/31 by Sudarshan Ananth, Lars Brink, Rainer Heise +2 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2006.07.014

published as Nucl.Phys.B753:195-210,2006 · 23 pages, minor corrections in appendix C

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Abstract

We conjecture that the light-cone Hamiltonian of N=8 Supergravity can be expressed as a quadratic form. We explain why this rewriting is unique to maximally supersymmetric theories. The N=8 quartic interaction vertex is constructed and used to verify that this conjecture holds to second order in the coupling constant.

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