Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1998-06-15
Nucl.Phys.B535:242-292,1998
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Latex, 58 pages, minor corrections
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00552-5
We introduce a doubled formalism for the bosonic sector of the maximal supergravities, in which a Hodge dual potential is introduced for each bosonic field (except for the metric). The equations of motion can then be formulated as a twisted self-duality condition on the total field strength \G, which takes its values in a Lie superalgebra. This doubling is invariant under dualisations; it allows a unification of the gauge symmetries of all degrees, including the usual U-dualities that have degree zero. These ``superdualities'' encompass the dualities for all choices of polarisation (i.e. the choices between fields and their duals). All gauge symmetries appear as subgroups of finite-dimensional supergroups, with Grassmann coefficients in the differential algebra of the spacetime manifold.
Cremmer Eugene
Julia Bernard
Lu Hai
Pope Christopher N.
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