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SUMMARY:Chern-Simons Forms and Supergravities in D = 11
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081202T110000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081202T120000Z
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DESCRIPTION:It has been pointed out several times in the past that eleven-
 dimensional Chern-Simons Supergravity would make a natural candidate for M
  Theory\, due to its appealing good behaviour as a gauge theory. However\,
  according to our current understanding of String Theory and M Theory\, in
  that case it should be possible to recover standard Cremmer-Julia-Scherk 
 Supergravity as some kind of limit of Chern-Simons Supergravity. All effor
 ts notwithstanding the issue remains open until now. Solving this problem 
 turns out to be a relevant consistency condition\, necessary to test wheth
 er in fact\, a Chern-Simons Supergravity theory could provide us with a co
 nsistent action principle for M Theory. A possible solution to the problem
  could be to compare not the dynamics of both theories but directly their 
 action principles. Perhaps standard supergravity could correspond to a sec
 tor of a Chern–Simons theory in d = 11\, where other terms in the action 
 could correspond to higher order corrections in a lenght parameter\n\nhttp
 s://indico.ific.uv.es/event/1663/
LOCATION:Dpto. de Física Teórica (UVEG) Sala Seminarios
URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/1663/
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