• DOI:10.1002/prop.201910009
• Corpus ID: 118934620

How Space‐Times Emerge from the Superpoint

@article{Huerta2019HowSE,
  title={How Space‐Times Emerge from the Superpoint},
  author={John Huerta},
  journal={Fortschritte der Physik},
  year={2019},
  volume={67}
}

• J. Huerta
• Published 7 March 2019
• Physics
• Fortschritte der Physik

We describe how the super Minkowski space‐times relevant to string theory and M‐theory, complete with their Lorentz metrics and spin structures, emerge from a much more elementary object: the superpoint. In the sense of higher structures, this comes from treating the superpoint as an object in a flavor of rational homotopy theory, and repeatedly constructing central extensions. We will fit this story into the larger picture of the brane bouquet of Fiorenza–Sati–Schreiber: string theories and membrane theories emerge from super Minkowski space‐times in precisely the same way as the super Minkowski space‐times themselves emerge from the superpoint. This note is adapted from a talk I gave at the Durham symposium Higher Structures in M‐Theory.