IIA Ten-forms and the Gauge Algebras of Maximal Supergravity Theories

Eric A. Bergshoeff; Fabio Riccioni; Mees de Roo; Sven F. Kerstan; Tomas Ortin

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IIA Ten-forms and the Gauge Algebras of Maximal Supergravity Theories

Eric A. Bergshoeff, Mees de Roo, Sven F. Kerstan, Tomas Ortin, Fabio Riccioni

High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 27 Feb 2006 · 30 references

Pith's verdict: A plausible and useful IIA extension with two 10-forms, but the exact-count claim rests on an unshown closure check.

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CitationEric A. Bergshoeff, Fabio Riccioni, Mees de Roo, Sven F. Kerstan, Tomas Ortin. "IIA Ten-forms and the Gauge Algebras of Maximal Supergravity Theories." arXiv:hep-th/0602280 (2006). https://pith.science/paper/GSWOSDI7

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Dear [Colleague],

The paper does two things: it shows from supersymmetry closure that IIA supergravity can be extended with two independent 10-form potentials, and it works out the resulting bosonic gauge algebra, comparing it to E11. If the count is right, it settles the IIA 10-form sector and identifies which one can couple to a kappa-symmetric 9-brane. That is a real result, and it is the natural IIA analogue of the authors' earlier IIB analysis.

The explicit material is substantial. The supersymmetry transformations, field strengths, and gauge transformations for the democratic formulation, including the 6-form and 8-form duals, are written out in detail. The second 10-form's transformation, eq. (2.35), is a long expression with many gauge-field-dependent terms, and the paper shows that only the first 10-form, which transforms without such terms, can match the Nambu-Goto variation to a gravitino projector. That argument is clear and convincing. The gauge algebra analysis in Section 4 is also carefully done; the authors linearize the transformations and derive a non-Abelian algebra, then point out the structural similarity to E11 raising operators. They are appropriately cautious about the E11 relation, flagging that E11 predicts many more representations.

The soft spot is exactly where the stress test says it is. The claim that there are exactly two 10-forms rests on a completeness argument that is asserted, not shown. After eq. (2.36), the paper says the only freedom is the dilaton exponent or a Gamma11 insertion, that Gamma11 gives only the volume form, and that changing the dilaton factor is "ruled out by checking closure." No ansatz is written down, no closure computation is displayed. Since the count of two feeds directly into the 9-brane conclusion and the E11 matching, this is load-bearing. The authors explicitly flag it as a check, so it is a limitation rather than an internal contradiction, and the two given 10-forms are explicit and checkable. But a reader cannot verify that no third structure closes. The 9-brane conclusion also assumes a kappa-symmetric action in static gauge, which is a reasonable working assumption but still an assumption.

Overall, this is a solid paper with one genuine gap. The math that is shown is consistent and the E11 discussion is honest. I would send it to peer review; the right referee will ask for the missing closure details or an explicit ansatz before the exact count is taken as established.

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If the two-ten-form classification is correct, this is an important result: it provides a supersymmetry-based derivation of the IIA ten-form sector, a single kappa-symmetric BPS 9-brane, and a concrete non-Abelian gauge algebra whose structure is compatible with low-level E11 predictions. The paper is also valuable for its explicit formulas: the new ten-form supersymmetry transformations, field strengths, gauge transformations, and the brane projection operator are written out in enough detail to be checked. The authors are careful to distinguish results derived from supersymmetry closure from E11 conjectures, and they flag the main remaining gap themselves: the uniqueness of the two ten-forms is asserted after a closure check that is not displayed. Because that count feeds directly into both the 9-brane conclusion and the E11 comparison, the significance of the paper is conditional on completing that enumeration.

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[Section 2, after Eq. (2.36)] The claim that IIA supergravity admits exactly two independent ten-forms is not established. The text states that the only freedom in the supersymmetry transformations is the dilaton factor or an additional Gamma11 insertion, that Gamma11 insertions are proportional to the volume form, and that changing the dilaton factor is 'ruled out by checking closure', but no systematic ansatz for the allowed ten-form transformations is written down and no closure computation is shown. A reader cannot verify that a third ten-form, for example one built from a different linear combination of \bar{\epsilon}\Gamma_{(9)}\psi, \bar{\epsilon}\Gamma_{(10)}\lambda, Gamma11 variants, or field-dependent and G(0)-dependent terms, does not also close. This is load-bearing because the count of two feeds directly into the single-BPS-9-brane result in Section 3 and into the E11 matching in Section 4. Please provide either an explicit classification of all possible ten-form transformation rules or the full closure check for the excluded cases.
[Section 4.2, Eqs. (4.7)-(4.12)] The derivation of the IIA bosonic gauge algebra is only summarized. The text says that the parameters and fields are first redefined and rescaled following [15], but the actual redefinitions are not shown, and the coefficients x2k, y2k+1, z2k,2l in Eqs. (4.10)-(4.12) are simply stated. Since the claimed relation with E11 is based on this algebra, the reader cannot independently verify the algebra without repeating a lengthy calculation. Please include the intermediate steps in an appendix, or at least provide a clear map from the transformations of Section 2 to the final linearized transformations, and state which parts are taken from [15] and which are new.

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[Sections 2 and 3] The notation is inconsistent: the ten-form in Eq. (2.10) and the 'second' ten-form introduced before Eq. (2.35) are both called D(10), while Section 3 switches to D and D'. Please adopt distinct notation consistently throughout.
[Table 1] Table 1 is titled 'all IIA supersymmetric branes' but omits B(8) and D'(10). Although the text explains that B(8) does not transform linearly to the gravitino and D'(10) cannot couple to a 9-brane, consider renaming the table or adding a footnote to avoid the appearance of an unqualified completeness claim.
[Section 5] The statement that the d=11 superalgebra does not allow an 11-form potential is asserted without a calculation or reference. Please add a footnote with a brief argument or cite a published verification.
[Section 4.1, after Eq. (4.5)] The schematic notation in Eqs. (4.13) and (4.14), where numbers such as '2', '3', '5' denote gauge transformations, is useful but should be defined immediately after first use; a reader not familiar with the E11 level notation may otherwise confuse these numbers with form ranks.

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IIA supergravity admits exactly two independent 10-form potentials, and one of them couples to a BPS 9-brane.

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This paper shows that ten-dimensional IIA supergravity can be extended by two independent 10-form gauge potentials, higher-rank fields that carry no propagating degrees of freedom in ten dimensions but can couple to spacetime-filling branes, and that supersymmetry fixes these as the only ones possible. The paper works in a completely democratic formulation, in which every field is accompanied by its magnetic dual, and imposes closure of the supersymmetry algebra to determine the transformation rules of the new forms. Only one of the two 10-forms can couple to a half-supersymmetric spacetime-filling 9-brane, with tension $e^{-2\phi}$. The paper then rewrites the bosonic gauge transformations of both IIA and IIB so that the gauge algebras become non-Abelian, and shows that these algebras reproduce the low-level structure of the conjectured symmetry algebra $E_{11}$.

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The central mechanism is closure of the $\mathcal{N}=2$, $d=10$ supersymmetry algebra in a completely democratic formulation, meaning a formulation that contains all gauge fields together with their magnetic duals. Closure fixes the supersymmetry and gauge transformations of the dual fields, including the two 10-forms, and it forces the coefficients that later appear in the gauge algebra. The second mechanism is a three-step rewriting of the bosonic gauge sector: expand the curvatures, redefine gauge parameters so that transformations depend only on derivatives, and redefine fields so that transformations become linear in the fields. This exposes a non-Abelian algebra in which all higher-form gauge transformations are obtained as multiple commutators of one or two low-degree raising operators. Comparing the level structure of this algebra with decompositions of $E_{11}$ is what produces the claimed relation.

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The central claim is that the IIA supergravity multiplet contains exactly two independent 10-form potentials. Closure of the supersymmetry algebra determines their gauge and supersymmetry transformations; one of the two forms transforms with a gravitino term and supports a kappa-symmetric BPS 9-brane, while the other does not and therefore cannot couple to such a brane by itself. The paper further claims that, after field-dependent redefinitions, the bosonic gauge algebras of IIA and IIB become non-Abelian and linear in the gauge fields, with the higher-form transformations generated from a small set of low-degree gauge parameters. These algebras match, at low levels, the representations predicted by the conjectured symmetry algebra $E_{11}$. The paper also finds that neither IIA 10-form has an eleven-dimensional origin and that the $d=11$ superalgebra does not allow an 11-form potential.

Load-bearing premise

The count of exactly two 10-forms rests on the assumption that the only possible supersymmetry variations of these forms are the ones obtained by adjusting the dilaton factor or inserting the chirality matrix, with all other structures excluded by closure; if a third type of variation could close the algebra, the paper's central count would change.

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The IIA theory contains a half-supersymmetric 9-brane with tension $e^{-2\phi}$, so a consistent background requires an orientifold 9-plane to cancel the brane's charge.
In the massive deformation of IIA supergravity, one of the two 10-forms, together with the 6-form and 8-form, can be gauged away, leaving a single 10-form in the massive sector.
The non-Abelian gauge algebras obtained from IIA and IIB supersymmetry reproduce the low-level content of $E_{11}$, providing evidence for the conjecture that $E_{11}$ is the underlying symmetry of string and M-theory.
The absence of an eleven-dimensional origin for the IIA 10-forms means that the massive IIA sector containing them cannot be obtained from eleven-dimensional supergravity by ordinary dimensional reduction.

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If the two-form count is exact, the IIA 9-brane should fit into the T-duality web: T-dualizing the IIB solitonic 9-brane should recover the IIA brane, while the second IIA 10-form may correspond to a T-dual of one of the IIB 10-forms or to a purely algebraic closure object.
The raising-operator structure of the supergravity gauge algebras suggests that continuing the commutators to arbitrarily high rank would generate the full $E_{11}$ multiplet; the extra $E_{11}$ representations that lack a supergravity interpretation could correspond to potentials that are trivial in ten dimensions but propagate in $d>10$.
A testable extension would be to repeat the democratic closure analysis for lower-supersymmetry ten-dimensional theories; if their 10-form sectors are also fixed by supersymmetry, the link to $E_{11}$ may be a general feature rather than a special property of maximal supergravity.

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We show that IIA supergravity can be extended with two independent 10-form potentials. These give rise to a single BPS IIA 9-brane. We investigate the bosonic gauge algebra of both IIA and IIB supergravity in the presence of 10-form potentials and point out an intriguing relation with the symmetry algebra $E_{11}$, which has been conjectured to be the underlying symmetry of string theory/M-theory.

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We show that IIA supergravity can be extended with two independent 10-form potentials. These give rise to a single BPS IIA 9-brane. We investigate the bosonic gauge algebra of both IIA and IIB supergravity in the presence of 10-form potentials and point out an intriguing relation with the symmetry algebra $E_{11}$, which has been conjectured to be the underlying symmetry of string theory/M-theory.

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**Figure 1.** The IIB decomposition of the E11 Dynkin diagram. The nine black dots represent the SL(10) sub-algebra on which the gravity sector is embedded. It can be shown that the ”lowest” irreducible representations arising for this decomposition coincide with the fields of IIB supergravity including the 10-form potentials, see table 3 in appendix A.1 of [18]. The way this works is that the two white dots act as two raising operators and the number of times they act corresponds to the “level” of the representation. In this way all representations can be obtained. In our supergravity approach a…

**Figure 2.** The IIA decomposition of the E11 Dynkin diagram. Like in the IIB case the two white dots indicate the two raising operators. However, in this case, they correspond to a 2-form Σ(2) (the 11 white dot) and a 1-form Λ(1) (the 10 white dot). The calculation of the SL(10) representations leading to the fields of IIA supergravity including the 10-form potentials can be found in table 2 and the corresponding table in Appendix A.1 of [18]. An explicit construction of the gauge algebra from the E11 point of view has been given in [19] and earlier works (see references in [19]) . Although the…

**Figure 3.** The M-theory decomposition of the E11 Dynkin diagram. The ten black dots correspond to the SL(11) subalgebra and the white dot indicates a single raising operator. The fact that the gauge transformation is a 3-form follows from the three black dots 8, 9, and 10. The specific representations predicted by E11 can be found in table 1 of [18]. Extending dual gravitons to the nonlinear level seems to be problematic [29]. It would be interesting to reconsider this issue in the context of (linearised) d = 11 supergravity and the underlying E11 structure. 5Actually, similar dual gravitons…

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For the IIA case we establish a similar result: we show that the trivial ten-form found in [ref] does not persist at the non-linear level.

IIA/IIB Supergravity and Ten-forms · Introduction · contest 0.88

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The analysis of [ref] can be extended to include the quartic fermi terms.

IIA/IIB Supergravity and Ten-forms · IIA supergravity · 0.98
In particular, the ten-dimensional results of references [ref] can be extended determining all the forms that are compatible with the closure of the supersymmetry algebra below ten dimensions.

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One can show that the field strengths and gauge transformations of [ref] coincide with those given in eqs.

Local E(11) · $E_11$ and massive IIA · 0.96
This can be seen explicitly by observing that the field strength of the IIA 9-form that one obtains from the deformed $E_11$ algebra associated to the Romans theory [ref] coincides up to field redefinitions with the 9-form that one obtains imposing the closure of the supersymmetry algebra [ref] , which also imposes the duality of its field strength with the Romans mass.

Local E(11) and the gauging of the trombone symmetry · Conclusions · 0.91
The analysis of 10-forms performed imposing the closure of the supersymmetry algebra shows perfect agreement with the $E_11$ predictions, for both the IIB [ref] and the IIA [ref] case.

E(11)-extended spacetime and gauged supergravities · Introduction · 0.86

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One piece of evidence for this was provided by the proof [ref] that the top–forms [By a top-form in D dimensions we mean a gauge field with D anti–symmetric indices.

E(11) and the Embedding Tensor · Introduction · 0.98
This was indeed explicitly shown first in the case of Romans IIA [ref] , and then in the five dimensional [ref] and three dimensional [ref] cases.

The very-extended trombone · The general method · 0.98

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This theory was originally constructed in [ref] by Romans but has also been considered more recently in [ref] and [ref] .

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E. Cremmer, B. Julia, H. Lu and C. N. Pope, “Dualisation o f dualities. II: Twisted self-duality of doubled ﬁelds and superdualities,” Nucl. P hys. B 535 (1998) 242 [arXiv:hep-th/9806106]. – 17 –

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C. M. Hull and P. K. Townsend, “Unity of superstring duali ties,” Nucl. Phys. B 438 (1995) 109 [arXiv:hep-th/9410167]

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J. H. Schwarz and P. C. West, “Symmetries And Transformat ions Of Chiral N=2 D = 10 Supergravity,” Phys. Lett. B 126 (1983) 301; J. H. Schwarz, “Covariant Field Equations Of Chiral N=2 D = 10 Supergravity,” Nucl. Phys. B 226 (1983) 269; – 16 – P. S. Howe and P. C. West, “The Complete N=2, D = 10 Supergravit y,” Nucl. Phys. B 238 (1984) 181

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G. W. Gibbons, M. B. Green and M. J. Perry, “Instantons and Seven-Branes in Type IIB Superstring Theory,” Phys. Lett. B 370 (1996) 37 [arXiv:hep-th/9511080]

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P. Meessen and T. Ort ´ ın, “An Sl(2,Z) multiplet of nine-d imensional type II supergravity theories,” Nucl. Phys. B 541 (1999) 195 [arXiv:hep-th/9806120]

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