Superunification from eleven dimensions

M.J. Duff, B.E.W. Nilsson and C.N. Pope

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1984, vol. 124, issue 1, 219-247

Abstract: We show how N=8 supersymmetry can break spontaneously to N=1 at the Planck scale via a Kaluza-Klein compactification of d=11 supergravity on the squashed seven-sphere. Features unique to Kaluza-Klein supergravity are (i) the massless gravitino of the N=1 phase comes from a massive N=8 supermultiplet, (ii) the scalars developing nonzero VEVs also belong to massive N=8 supermultiplets, (iii) parity remains unbroken when N=8 breaks to N=1.

Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(84)90241-3

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