Twisted Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity

We construct a fully interacting holomorphic/topological theory in eleven dimensions that is defined on products of Calabi–Yau fivefolds with real one-manifolds. The theory describes a particular deformation of the cotangent bundle to the moduli space of complex structures on the fivefold. Its field...

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Veröffentlicht in:Communications in mathematical physics 2023-09, Vol.402 (2), p.1103-1166
Hauptverfasser: Raghavendran, Surya, Saberi, Ingmar, Williams, Brian R.
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Zusammenfassung:We construct a fully interacting holomorphic/topological theory in eleven dimensions that is defined on products of Calabi–Yau fivefolds with real one-manifolds. The theory describes a particular deformation of the cotangent bundle to the moduli space of complex structures on the fivefold. Its field content matches the holomorphic (or minimal) twist of the eleven-dimensional supergravity multiplet recently computed by the second two authors, and we offer numerous consistency checks showing that the interactions correctly describe interacting twisted eleven-dimensional supergravity at the perturbative level. We prove that the global symmetry algebra of our model on flat space is an L ∞ central extension of the infinite-dimensional simple exceptional super Lie algebra E (5, 10), following a recent suggestion of Cederwall in the context of the relevant pure spinor model. Twists of superconformal algebras map to the fields of our model on the complement of a stack of M2 or M5 branes, laying the groundwork for a fully holomorphic version of twisted holography in this context.
ISSN:0010-3616
1432-0916
DOI:10.1007/s00220-023-04745-2