8–11 May 2023
Albano Building 3
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Johannes Lahnsteiner - Wrapped Membranes, Supergravity, and U-Duality

11 May 2023, 11:30
1h
Lärosal 7 (Albano Building 1)

Lärosal 7

Albano Building 1

Long talk

Description

In this talk, I revisit the wrapped membrane sector of M theory. It is defined as the zero Planck length limit with a critically tuned three-form and decouples the wrapping modes from the rest of the spectrum. I will present the underlying background geometry and extend it by including supersymmetry. This will lead me to introduce a new supergravity multiplet in eleven dimensions. Contrary to the usual multiplet, it is manifestly non-Lorentzian. Finally, I will conjecture dualities to other limits of M theory.

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