Research Group: Centre for Research in String Theory Number of Students: 1 Length of Study in Years: 3-4 Full-time Project: yes
Exceptional field is a new construction that is a lift of eleven dimensional supergravity to a novel extended space. Currently, there has been huge progress in constructing actions and describing the local symmetries of this theory. The time is right to now use this formalism to address interesting questions that are thrown up by string and M-theory. In particular the project will look at exact solutions in the theory and their interpretation. The quantisation of the theory and how one might move beyond ordinary supergravity will also be examined.
Knowledge of string theory, quantum field theory and a high level of general relativity.
SPCS Academics: David Berman