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Towards a manifestly supersymmetric action for 11-dimensional supergravity

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We investigate the possibility of writing a manifestly supersymmetric action for 11-dimensional supergravity. The construction involves an explicit relation between the fields in the super-vielbein and the super-3-form, and uses non-minimal pure spinors. A simple cubic interaction term for a single scalar superfield is found.

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Cederwall, M. Towards a manifestly supersymmetric action for 11-dimensional supergravity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 117 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2010)117

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