Speaker
Dr
Jakob Palmkvist
(Chalmers University of Technology)
Description
It has been known since 1998 that the dynamics of the bosonic form fields in supergravity can be formulated as a twisted first-order self-duality relation in a Lie superalgebra. I will extend the formalism to the gravity sector and describe how Einstein's equations in vacuum can be derived in a similar way. Conversely, diffeomorphisms can be generalised and unified with gauge transformations for the form fields.
Author
Dr
Jakob Palmkvist
(Chalmers University of Technology)