Speaker: Dr. Ingmar Saberi (CAS Researcher in Residence/Physics, LMU)
Respondent: Dr. Axel Kleinschmidt (MPI for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam)
Since its discovery by Cremmer, Julia, and Scherk in 1978, eleven-dimensional supergravity has been a long-standing object of fascination in theoretical physics. It is the unique supergravity theory in eleven dimensions, which is the largest possible dimension in which a supergravity theory can exist; although it is related to the supergravity limit of every known string theory model, the expected completion of the theory to the long-sought “M-theory” remains devoid of any concrete description. Expectations suggest that the theory should arise, in analogy to string theory, by a first-quantized theory of dynamical surfaces called “membranes,“ but no satisfactory construction, whether along these or other lines, has been given.
Ingmar Saberi will talk about eleven-dimensional super gravitation, applying the newest results from the theory of pure spinor superfields.
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