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Contractions from to the M-theory superalgebra extended by additional fermionic generators
We study here the generalized Weimar-Woods contractions of the superalgebra
in order to obtain a suitable algebra that could
describe the gauge group of supergravity. The contracted superalgebras
are assumed to be given in terms of fermionic extensions of the M-theory
superalgebra. We show that the only superalgebra of this type obtained by
contraction is the only one for which the three-form of supergravity
cannot be trivialized. Therefore, supergravity cannot be connected in
this way with a contraction of
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