The surprising structure of non-relativistic 11-dimensional supergravity

Bergshoeff, Eric A.; Blair, Chris D. A.; Lahnsteiner, Johannes; Rosseel, Jan (2024) The surprising structure of non-relativistic 11-dimensional supergravity. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 (12). ISSN 1029-8479

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Abstract

We study a non-relativistic limit of 11-dimensional supergravity. This limit leads to a theory with an underlying membrane Newton-Cartan geometry. Consistency of the non-relativistic limit requires the imposition of constraints, requiring that certain bosonic and fermionic torsions and curvatures vanish. We investigate the implications of two versions of these constraints. In one version, we keep only 16 supersymmetry transformations, leading to a simple (purely bosonic) constraint structure but an unusual realisation of the supersymmetry algebra which does not close into diffeomorphisms. In the other, we keep all 32 supersymmetry transformations. This requires a complicated sequence of bosonic and fermionic constraints, eventually involving three derivatives of bosonic fields. We argue, with a linearised calculation, that this sequence of constraints terminates. Furthermore, we show that there exists a family of supersymmetric solutions satisfying these constraints, containing the non-relativistic limit of the M2 supergravity solution recently obtained by Lambert and Smith as a background relevant for non-relativistic holography.

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Article

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Supergravity Models, M-Theory, Space-Time Symmetries

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NATURAL SCIENCES > Physics

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Theoretical Physics Division

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