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SIGMA, 2025 Volume 21, 100, 30 pp. (Mi sigma2216)

Higher Symmetries in Twisted Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity

Fabian Hahnera, Natalie M. Paquettea, Surya Raghavendranbc

a Department of Physics, University of Washington, 3910 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
b School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, King’s Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK
c Department of Mathematics, Yale University, P.O. Box 208283, New Haven, CT 06520, USA

Abstract: In supersymmetric theories, protected quantities can be reorganized into holomorphic-topological theories by twisting. Recently, it was observed by Jonsson, Kim and Young that residual super-Poincaré symmetries in certain twisted theories can receive higher corrections, turning them into $L_\infty$ algebras with non-strict actions on the twisted fields. In this note, we show that the same phenomenon occurs for the two admissible twists of eleven-dimensional supergravity. Along the way, we discuss in detail the connection between components of physical and twisted fields.

Keywords: twisted supergravity, higher symmetry, $L_\infty$ algebra, topological-holomorphic field theory.

MSC: 83E50, 17B81, 17B55

Received: July 9, 2025; in final form November 25, 2025; Published online December 3, 2025

Language: English

DOI: 10.3842/SIGMA.2025.100


ArXiv: 2506.02246


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