Bosonic D=11 supergravity from a generalized Chern–Simons action

• Main Authors: D. Camarero, J.A. de Azcárraga, J.M. Izquierdo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2017-10-01
• Series: Nuclear Physics B
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S055032131730278X

It is shown that the action of the bosonic sector of D=11 supergravity may be obtained by means of a suitable scaling of the originally dimensionless fields of a generalized Chern–Simons action. This follows from the eleven-form CS-potential of the most general linear combination of closed, gauge invariant twelve-forms involving the sp(32)-valued two-form curvatures supplemented by a three-form field. In this construction, the role of the skewsymmetric four-index auxiliary function needed for the first order formulation of D=11 supergravity is played by the gauge field associated with the five Lorentz indices generator of the bosonic sp(32) subalgebra of osp(1|32).