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hep-th2016★ 37 cited

Classical and quantum particle dynamics in univariate background fields

Thomas Heinzl, Anton Ilderton, Ben King

We investigate deviations from the plane wave model in the interaction of charged particles with strong electromagnetic fields. A general result is that integrability of the dynami…

hep-th2016★ 22 cited

Basic hypergeometry of supersymmetric dualities

Ilmar Gahramanov, Hjalmar Rosengren

We introduce several new identities combining basic hypergeometric sums and integrals. Such identities appear in the context of superconformal index computations for three-dimensio…

hep-th2016★ 31 cited

Very Special Relativity as a background field theory

Anton Ilderton

We consider violation of Lorentz invariance in QED induced by a very high frequency background wave. An effective theory is obtained by averaging observables over the rapid field o…

hep-th2016★ 20 cited

The non-linear coupled spin 2 - spin 3 Cotton equation in three dimensions

Hampus Linander, Bengt E. W. Nilsson

In the context of three-dimensional conformal higher spin theory we derive, in the frame field formulation, the full non-linear spin 3 Cotton equation coupled to spin 2. This is do…

hep-th2016★ 27 cited

Double supergeometry

Martin Cederwall

A geometry of superspace corresponding to double field theory is developed, with type II supergravity in D=10 as the main example. The formalism is based on an orthosymplectic exte…

hep-th2016★ 7 cited

Supersymmetric geometries of IIA supergravity III

Ulf Gran, George Papadopoulos, Christian von Schultz

We find that (massive) IIA backgrounds that admit a invariant Killing spinor must exhibit a null Killing vector field which leaves the Killing spinor inva…

hep-th2016★ 1 cited

Kac--Moody groups and automorphic forms in low dimensional supergravity theories

Ling Bao, Lisa Carbone

Kac--Moody groups over have been conjectured to occur as symmetry groups of supergravity theories dimensionally reduced to dimensions less than 3, and their integr…

hep-th2016★ 21 cited

The worldline approach to helicity flip in plane waves

Anton Ilderton, Greger Torgrimsson

We apply worldline methods to the study of vacuum polarisation effects in plane wave backgrounds, in both scalar and spinor QED. We calculate helicity-flip probabilities to one loo…

hep-th2016★ 12 cited

Exceptional versus superPoincaré algebra as the defining symmetry of maximal supergravity

Sudarshan Ananth, Lars Brink, Sucheta Majumdar

We describe how one may use either the superPoincaré algebra or the exceptional algebra to construct maximal supergravity theories in the light-cone formalism. The d=4 construction…