SUSY vs E8 Gauge Theory in 11 Dimensions Export

@misc{citeulike:2309266, abstract = {Diaconescu, Moore and Witten have shown that the topological part of the M-theory partition function is an invariant of an E8 gauge bundle over the 11-dimensional bulk. This presents a puzzle as an 11d gauge theory cannot exhibit linearly realized supersymmetry. One possibility is that the gauge theory is nonsupersymmetric and flows to 11d SUGRA only in the infrared, with SUSY arising as a low energy accidental degeneracy. Although no such gauge theory has been constructed, any such construction must satisfy a number of constraints in order to correctly reproduce the known 10-dimensional physics on each boundary component. We analyze these constraints and in particular use them to attempt an approximate construction of the 11d gravitino as a condensate of the gauge theory fields.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Evslin, Jarah and Sati, Hisham}, citeulike-article-id = {2309266}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0210090}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0210090}, day = {10}, eprint = {hep-th/0210090}, keywords = {11d, e8, gauge-theories, gravity-theories, m-theory, quantum-games, supersymmetry, symmetries}, month = {Oct}, posted-at = {2008-01-31 01:35:07}, priority = {2}, title = {SUSY vs E8 Gauge Theory in 11 Dimensions}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0210090}, year = {2002} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:2309266 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2309266 N2 - Diaconescu, Moore and Witten have shown that the topological part of the M-theory partition function is an invariant of an E8 gauge bundle over the 11-dimensional bulk. This presents a puzzle as an 11d gauge theory cannot exhibit linearly realized supersymmetry. One possibility is that the gauge theory is nonsupersymmetric and flows to 11d SUGRA only in the infrared, with SUSY arising as a low energy accidental degeneracy. Although no such gauge theory has been constructed, any such construction must satisfy a number of constraints in order to correctly reproduce the known 10-dimensional physics on each boundary component. We analyze these constraints and in particular use them to attempt an approximate construction of the 11d gravitino as a condensate of the gauge theory fields. TI - SUSY vs E8 Gauge Theory in 11 Dimensions KW - 11d KW - e8 KW - gauge-theories KW - gravity-theories KW - m-theory KW - quantum-games KW - supersymmetry KW - symmetries AU - Evslin, Jarah AU - Sati, Hisham PY - 2002/Oct/10/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0210090 ER -