The many surprises of maximal supergravity
arXiv:1301.6919
Abstract
We describe recent developments regarding gauged N=8 supergravity in D=4. Using the embedding tensor formulation we show how to classify all the extrema of this theory with a G2 residual gauge symmetry. Our classification contains all the vacua of the recently discovered family of SO(8) gauged maximal supergravities.
Contribution to the proceedings of Barcelona Postgrad Encounters on Fundamental Physics