E11超对称例外场论的非线性对偶方程

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JHEP10(2019)165

where η

is a symmetric non-degenerate K(E

) invariant bi-linear form on T

−1

and Ω

the E

invariant symplectic form on T

−1

In what follows we propose a non-linear extension of this duality equation. One im-

portant step will be to replace the partial derivative of the extra ﬁelds (X

˜α

, ζ

, . . .) by

constrained ﬁelds that are familiar from exceptional ﬁeld theory, in particular for E

[34],

in which case the tensor hierarchy algebra gives rise to the non-semi-simple Virasoro exten-

sion e

h hL

−1

i of e

3.3 Proposal for the non-linear duality equations

In this section we shall argue that the construction of a non-linear E

exceptional ﬁeld

theory can be achieved by deﬁning the non-linear duality equation

= M

Ω

, (3.9)

where M

is the exceptional metric, a function of the ﬁelds in E

/K(E

), in the ﬁeld

strength representation, and F

is a non-linear ﬁeld strength whose deﬁnition needs to

incorporate the extra constrained ﬁelds that are expected to arise from what we already

know from the structure of the E

exceptional ﬁeld theories for lower n. In constructing

this ﬁeld strength, we shall use the tensor hierarchy algebra extension of e

introduced in

section 2.2.

Before deﬁning the non-linear F

we shall give more details on the deﬁnition of the

exceptional metric M

. Let V(z) be a coset representative of E

/K(E

) transforming as

V(z) → k(z)V(gz)g with g ∈ E

a global element and k(z) a local K(E

) element. ‘Local’

here refers to the dependence on the extended space-time with coordinates z

where M

labels the R(Λ

) representation of E

occurring at level p = +1 in the tensor hierarchy

algebra. The subgroup K(E

) is deﬁned as the subgroup of elements k that preserve a non-

Euclidean metric η such that k

†

ηk = η in a suitable highest (or lowest) weight representation

where the Hermitian conjugate can be deﬁned [63]. The non-Euclidean nature means for

example that K(E

) ∩ GL(11) = SO(1, 10) where GL(11) denotes the regular GL(11)

subgroup of E

that appears in the level decomposition relevant for describing D = 11

supergravity. In other words, η is the standard Minkowski metric of eleven-dimensional

space-time extended to the whole extended space-time.

As usual in exceptional ﬁeld theory, it is convenient to work with the exceptional metric

in order to avoid the introduction of the K(E

) gauge invariance and its gauge-ﬁxing,

M(z) = V(z)

†

ηV(z) → g

†

M(gz)g . (3.10)

This deﬁnition is in complete analogy with non-linear realisations of ﬁnite-dimensional

groups but requires some care in the case of inﬁnite-dimensional Kac-Moody groups. We

As we do not know whether T

−1

is completely reducible, it is possible that η

is only well-deﬁned and

non-degenerate on some (maximal) completely reducible submodule. For simplicity, we shall only refer to

−1

as this (maximal) completely reducible submodule.

As shown in [71], there are other D = 11 signatures embedded in K(E

) that relate to so-called exotic

forms of supergravity [72] that have more than one time-like direction.

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shall make more comments on this subtlety when we discuss the vielbein and its gauge

transformation in section 3.5.

A key building block for the duality equations is the current deﬁned as

αβ

= M

−1

∂

M ∈ R(Λ

) ⊗ e

. (3.11)

This expression makes sense for the so-called small group in any integrable module [73].

Since M only involves E

/K(E

), the combination M

−1

∂

M can be expanded in the

adjoint of E

and transforms covariantly in the tensor product of R(Λ

) with the adjoint

with, where the former factor is due to the partial derivative.

We use the current (3.11) to deﬁne the non-linear ﬁeld strength F

= C

+ C

˜α

+ C

+ . . . (3.12)

where the structure coeﬃcients are the same as in (3.5), but ∂

has been promoted to

the non-linear current J

, while the partial derivative ∂

˜α

, ∂

, . . . are promoted

to constrained ﬁelds χ

˜α

, ζ

, . . . that are not total derivatives, but satisfy the section

constraint (3.4) on their index M . It is important to stress that the structure coeﬃcients

are deﬁned such that the potential φ

ˆα

is in T

−2

and not in T

, such that one cannot simply

extend J

Mα

to a current in the extended algebra T

. Nonetheless, because e

is simple one

can raise the index of the E

/K(E

) current to get J

. The indecomposable structure

of the module T

−2

implies that the ﬁeld strength must necessarily involve an additional ﬁeld

in R(Λ

) ⊗ R(Λ

), and because J

is not a total derivative, this additional ﬁeld χ

˜α

cannot be a total derivative either. It is nevertheless consistent with the indecomposable

representation to require that it satisﬁes the strong section constraint. We shall therefore

introduce the constrained ﬁelds χ

˜α

, ζ

, . . . so that they transform under E

according

to the indecomposable representation and the ﬁeld strength F

is indeed an E

tensor

in T

−1

. Even though the additional ﬁeld ζ

in R(Λ

) ⊗ R(Λ

) is not required by E

covariance, we shall see that both χ

˜α

and ζ

are necessary to write down a twisted

selfduality equation (3.9) covariant under generalised diﬀeomorphisms. In the current paper

we assume implicitly that we can consistently truncate to this known part of T

−2

but in

principle an extension to additional modules in T

−2

can be envisaged as indicated by the

ellipsis, which will be dropped for short in the following.

We now describe in more detail why (3.12) deﬁnes an E

covariant object due to the

indecomposable structure of the module T

−2

. Under rigid E

transformations one has as

in (2.4)

→ g

−1N

, (3.13a)

˜α

→ g

−1N



˜α

+ ω

˜α

(g)J



. (3.13b)

Recalling (2.9), it follows that

+ C

˜α

→ g



+ C

˜α



(3.14)

The ﬁeld ζ

associated with R(Λ

) was not considered in the linearised analysis in [47]. Including

it here has the beneﬁt of making the ﬁrst order duality equation gauge invariant while [47] only had gauge

invariant second order equations.

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transforms covariantly. The cocycle appearing in the indecomposable representation is

crucial in this calculation. The inﬁnitesimal transformations under g = exp(Λ

) corre-

sponding to (3.13) are

= Λ



−f

γα

− T

γN



, (3.15a)

˜α

= Λ



γ ˜α

− T

γN

˜α



+ Λ

γ ˜α

. (3.15b)

3.4 Gauge invariance of the non-linear ﬁeld equations

Having introduced an E

covariant tensor ﬁeld strength F

, the next step is to compute

how it transforms under E

generalised diﬀeomorphism. The gauge parameter ξ

of the

generalised Lie derivative transforms also in R(Λ

) just as the coordinates z

. Note that

additional gauge transformations with constrained gauge parameters are required for the

closure of the algebra of generalised Lie derivatives for e

with n ≥ 8 [4, 68, 69, 74]. We

shall not check the closure of the algebra of generalised Lie derivatives for e

, but we will

comment on these additional transformations in section 3.6.

The dynamical degrees of freedom of the theory appear through the representative M.

Therefore we start by deﬁning the generalised Lie derivative with parameter ξ acting on

M. The formula, as for all exceptional ﬁeld theories, can be deﬁned as (see e.g. [34])

M = ξ

∂

M + κ

αβ

αM

∂



+ t

β†



. (3.16)

This formula reproduces the unique linearised gauge transformation studied in [37, 47] in

the linearised approximation and provides a non-linear extension of it.

Combining the deﬁnition of J

in (3.11) and the transformation (3.16) it follows that

= ξ

∂

− T

βN

∂

βγ

+ ∂

+ T

αN



∂

+ M

P R

∂



, (3.17)

where the third term in the ﬁrst line originates from the derivative in the current acting

on the generalised diﬀeomorphism parameter in the variation of M. Using the section

constraint (3.4) on this term, one can recognise the ﬁrst line as the expected generalised Lie

derivative, including the transport term, an inﬁnitesimal e

transformation plus a weight

term, i.e. introducing the notation T

≡ κ

αβ

βM

= ξ

∂

+ T

∂

βα

+ T

∂

βN

∂

+ T

αN



∂

+ M

P R

∂



. (3.18)

The inhomogeneous terms in the second line are non-covariant variations that resemble the

linearised gauge transformation of the linearised current. At this level the variation of the

current is identical in structure to what one would obtain for any E

exceptional ﬁeld theory.

In order to obtain a consistent transformation of the ﬁeld strength F

, it is necessary

that all the components in T

−2

transform according to the indecomposable representation

of E

. To this end, it is useful to introduce the notation J

bα

≡ (J

, χ

˜α

, ζ

, . . .)

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that includes the additional constrained ﬁelds in a single object transforming as an element

bα

ˆα

of T

−2

. In this way one can deﬁne the following ansatz for the gauge transformation

of J

bα

that is manifestly consistent with the indecomposable representation

bα

= ξ

∂

bα

+ T

∂

β bα

bγ

+ T

∂

βN

bα

∂

bα

+ T

bαN



∂

+ M

P R

∂



+ Π

bα

∂

. (3.19)

This formula extends (3.18) to all components bα with structure coeﬃcients invariant under

for the indecomposable module, and we have added one extra term at the very end of

the equation with the understanding that Π

= 0, while Π

˜α

and Π

are the highest

weight projectors from R(Λ

) ⊗R(Λ

) to R(Λ

) and R(Λ

), respectively. These exist due

to (2.1). We again restrict only to R(Λ

) and R(Λ

); additional E

representations in

−2

could be accommodated in the same way, as long as they would appear in the tensor

product R(Λ

) ⊗ R(Λ

Assuming the uniform gauge transformation (3.19) we can read oﬀ the gauge transfor-

mations of the constrained ﬁelds to be

˜α

= ξ

∂

˜α

− T

∂

α˜α

+ ∂

˜α

+ T

∂

α˜α

+ T

˜αN



∂

+ M

P R

∂



+ Π

˜α

∂

, (3.20a)

= ξ

∂

− T

∂

αΛ

+ ∂

+ T

ΛN



∂

+ M

P R

∂



+ Π

∂

. (3.20b)

As explained above, this form is by construction in agreement with the indecomposable

structure of the module: the gauge transformation of χ

˜α

must include the same gauge

transformation as J

with the index ˜α instead, so that the gauge transformation of J

bα

is written in terms of invariant tensors. The indecomposable structure is such that one

has the freedom to add any transformation of χ

˜α

in the R(Λ

) module, which gives the

freedom to add the term involving the projector Π

˜α

. It will turn out that this additional

transformation is indeed necessary for the duality equations to be gauge invariant under

generalised diﬀeomorphisms.

Equipped with the formulas above, we can now compute the variation of the non-linear

ﬁeld strength (3.12) under gauge transformations and ﬁnd

= ξ

∂

− T

∂

αI

∂

+ C

bα



bαN



∂

+ M

P R

∂



+ Π

bα

∂



= ξ

∂

− T

∂

αI

∂





αR

+ C

˜α

˜αR

+ C

ΛR



+ C

˜α

+ C



∂

. (3.21)

Here, we have recombined the terms into the generalised Lie derivative of F

in the ﬁrst

lines of the two equations. The transport term and the e

transformation term recom-

bine by invariance of the structure coeﬃcients C

bα

. The last term of the ﬁrst lines

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