We give a modernized and streamlined review, aimed at mathematical physicists, of the origin and nature of the super Lie-algebra known as the (“hidden”) M-algebra, which arises somewhat subtly in analysis of 11D supergravity. Following arguments that this (hidden) M-algebra serves in fact as the maximal super-exceptional tangent space for 11D supergravity, we particularly make explicit here its integration to a (super-Lie) group. This is equipped with a left-invariant extension of the “decomposed” M-theory 3-form, such that it constitutes the Kleinian space on which super-exceptional spacetimes are to be locally modeled as Cartan geometries.
As a simple but consequential application, we highlight how to describe lattice subgroups of the hidden M-group that allow to toroidially compactify also the “hidden” dimensions of a super-exceptional spacetime, akin to the familiar situation in topological T-duality.
In order to deal with subtleties in these constructions, we (i) provide a computer-checked re-derivation of the “decomposed” M-theory 3-form, and (ii) present a streamlined conception of super-Lie groups, that is both rigorous while still close to physics intuition and practice.
Thereby this article highlights modernized super-Lie theory along the example of the hidden M-algebra, with an eye towards laying foundations for super-exceptional geometry. Among new observations which we touch on along the way is the dimensional reduction of the hidden M-algebra to a “hidden IIA-algebra” which in [45] we have explained as the exceptional extension of the T-duality doubled super-spacetime.
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