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Spectrum Generating Conformal and Quasiconformal U-Duality Groups, Supergravity and Spherical Vectors

Ivanka Bozovic Jelisavcic et al.Jan 12, 2009
After reviewing the algebraic structures that underlie the geometries of N=2Maxwell-Einstein supergravity theories (MESGT) in five and four dimensions withsymmetric scalar manifolds, we give a unified realization of their threedimensional U-duality groups as spectrum generating quasiconformal groups. Theyare F_{4(4)}, E_{6(2)}, E_{7(-5)}, E_{8(-24)} and SO(n+2,4). Our formulation iscovariant with respect to U-duality symmetry groups of corresponding fivedimensional supergravity theories, which are SL(3,R), SL(3,C), SU*(6), E_{6(6)}and SO(n-1,1)X SO(1,1), respectively. We determine the spherical vectors ofquasiconformal realizations of all these groups twisted by a unitary character.We also give their quadratic Casimir operators and determine their values. Ourwork lays the algebraic groundwork for constructing the unitary representationsof these groups induced by their geometric quasiconformal actions, whichinclude the quaternionic discrete series. For rank 2 cases, SU(2,1) andG_{2(2)}, corresponding to simple N=2 supergravity in four and five dimensions,this program was carried out in arXiv:0707.1669. We also discuss thecorresponding algebraic structures underlying symmetries of matter coupled N=4and N>4 supergravity theories. They lead to quasiconformal realizations ofsplit real forms of U-duality groups as a straightforward extension of thequaternionic real forms.