supergravity

nLab
Urs Schreiber
3d ago

Relation of Niemeier lattices to heterotic string theory: On D-branes in type 0 string theory: On S-duality in 9D supergravity: On heterotic M-theory on ADE-orbifolds: Michael Faux, Dieter Lüst, Burt Ovrut, Intersecting Orbifold Planes and Local Anomaly Cancellation in M-Theory, Nucl. Phys. B554: 437-483, 1999 (arXiv:hep-th/9903028) Michael Faux, Dieter Lüst, Burt Ovrut, Local Anomaly Cancellatio…

physicsstring-theorysupergravity
nLab
Urs Schreiber
3d ago

On the Wess-Zumino-Witten model: On D8-branes as black branes in massive type IIA string theory: On S-duality in 9D supergravity: On pp-wave Penrose limits of homogeneous spacetimes: On black holes and black strings in D=5 supergravity:

physicsstring-theorysupergravity
nLab
Urs Schreiber
3d ago

Tomás Ortín On double dimensional reduction of the M5-brane to the D4-brane: On massive type IIA string theory and its embedding in M-theory via M9-branes: On D8-branes as black branes in massive type IIA string theory: On S-duality in 9D supergravity: Formulation of (Lagrangian densities for) type II supergravity with “democratic”/“pregeometric” RR-fields subject to self-duality: On D9-branes: O…

physicsstring-theorysupergravity
nLab
Urs Schreiber
21d ago

superalgebra and (synthetic ) supergeometry supergravity in dimension 6 Background on spin representations and supersymmetry: 221 2 (1983) 331-348 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(83)90582-5] Formulation of supergravity on superspace: Moustafa A. Awada, Paul Townsend, Germán Sierra: Six-dimensional simple and extended chiral supergravity in superspace, Class. Quantum Grav. 2 (1985) L85 [doi:10.1088/0264-93…

physicssupergravitytheoretical-physics
nLab
Urs Schreiber
21d ago

On generalized Spin(7)-manifolds and M-theory on G₂-manifolds: On G-structures in M-theory: On D=6 supergravity: and in relation to contact geometry: Discussion of Killing spinors on globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds: On duality-symmetric abelian Yang-Mills theory (“premetric electromagnetism”) in the generality allowing “U-duality-twists” among several abelian gauge fields, motivated by a…

physicssupergravitytheoretical-physics
nLab
Urs Schreiber
29d ago

Early discussion of U-duality-covariant D=11 supergravity (later: “exceptional field theory”): Bernard de Wit, Hermann Nicolai: D = 11 Supergravity With Local Invariance, Nucl. Phys. B 274, 363 (1986) [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(86)90290-7, spire:227409] Bernard de Wit, Hermann Nicolai: Local SU(8) invariance in supergravity, talk at Nuffield Workshop on Supersymmetry and its Applications, 0357 [spire…

physicsstring-theorysupergravity