The N=8 supergravity Hamiltonian as a quadratic form

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作者
Ananth, Sudarshan [1 ]
Brink, Lars
Heise, Rainer
Svendsen, Harald G.
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[1] Albert Einstein Inst, Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, D-14476 Golm, Germany
[2] Chalmers Univ Technol, Dept Fundamental Phys, S-41296 Gothenburg, Sweden
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10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2006.07.014
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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We conjecture that the light-cone Hamiltonian of N = 8 supergravity can be expressed as a quadratic form. We explain why this rewriting is unique to maximally supersymmetric theories. The N = 8 quartic interaction vertex is constructed and used to verify that this conjecture holds to order kappa(2). (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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