Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1999-09-21
Class.Quant.Grav. 17 (2000) 835-870
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
50 pages, 6 figures, some typos corrected, accepted for publication in Class.Quant.Grav
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/17/4/308
We give a complete set of generators for the discrete exceptional U-duality groups of toroidal compactified type II theory and M-theory in d>2. For this, we use the DSZ quantization in d=4 as originally proposed by Hull and Townsend, and determine the discrete group inducing integer shifts on the charge lattice. It is generated by fundamental unipotents, which are constructed by exponentiating the Chevalley generators of the corresponding Lie algebra. We then extend a method suggested by the above authors and used by Sen for the heterotic string to get the discrete U-duality group in d=3, thereby obtaining a quantized symmetry in d=3 from a d=4 quantization condition. This is studied first in a toy model, corresponding to d=5 simple supergravity, and then applied to M-theory. It turns out that, in the toy model, the resulting U-duality group in d=3 is strictly smaller than the one generated by the fundamental unipotents corresponding to all Chevalley generators. However, for M-theory, both groups agree. We illustrate the compactification to d=3 by an embedding of d=4 particle multiplets into the d=3 theory.
Mizoguchi Shun'ya
Schroeder Germar
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