Affiliation:
1. Institute for Fundamental Theory, Department of Physics, University of Florida, USA
Abstract
In ten dimensions, SO(8) triality encourages confusion between fermions ans bosons, but in eleven dimensions, SO(9) has no such features. Yet this is the domain of M — theory whose infrared limit is the divergent supergravity field theory. Curtright ascribes this divergence to an incomplete cancellation among the Dynkin indices between the supergravity representations. We speculate that an infinite number of the recently discovered Euler triplets, describing massless particles of higher spin, can cancel the divergences of eleven dimensional supergravity, perhaps providing a clue to M — theory.
Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,Astronomy and Astrophysics,Nuclear and High Energy Physics