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The exceptional story of massive IIA supergravity

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The framework of exceptional field theory is extended by introducing consistent deformations of its generalised Lie derivative. For the first time, massive type IIA super-gravity is reproduced geometrically as a solution of the section constraint. This provides a unified description of all ten- and eleven-dimensional maximal supergravities. The actionof the E7(7) deformed theory is constructed, and reduces to those of exceptional field theory and gauged maximal supergravity in respective limits. The relation of this new framework to other approaches for generating the Romans mass non-geometrically is discussed.

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Ciceri, F., Guarino, A. & Inverso, G. The exceptional story of massive IIA supergravity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 154 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2016)154

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