N=8 Supergravity, and beyond

Hermann Nicolai

N=8 Supergravity, and beyond

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arxiv 2409.18656 v3 pith:Z4OKNR5D submitted 2024-09-27 hep-th gr-qc

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This contribution gives a panoramic overview of the development of N=8 supergravity and its relation to other maximally supersymmetric theories over the past 40 years. It also provides a personal perspective on the future role of this theory in attempts at unification.

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N=8 supergravity to cubic order is realized as the off-shell double copy of N=4 super Yang-Mills, with N=8 supersymmetry and SU(8) R-symmetry emerging from the two gauge factors.

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