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In this lecture I describe the light-cone formulation of quantum field theories especially the maximally supersymmetric ones. This is a formalism in which we keep only the physical degrees of freedom for both bosons and fermions. I show how N = 4 Yang-Mills Theory and N = 8 supergravity come out very naturally and that they look very much alike. I finally show how to implement the E7(7) symmetry for the supergravity theory. The new feature in this formulation is that all fields of the supermultiplet including the graviton transform under E7(7).
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Brink, L. (2009). Maximal Supersymmetric Theories and E7(7) in Light-Cone Superspace. In: Zanelli , J., Henneaux, M. (eds) Quantum Mechanics of Fundamental Systems: The Quest for Beauty and Simplicity. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87499-9_5
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