In analogy to how there is conjectured to be a non-perturbative completion of superstring theory on 10-dimensional spacetimes to an 11-dimensional theory to be called “M-theory”, there has been the speculation that the bosonic string with its 26-dimensional target spacetime might have a non-perturbative completion in a 27-dimensional theory of sorts: “bosonic M-theory” (Horowitz-Susskind 00)
The term “bosonic M-theory” was coined in
The suggestion that the 26 dimensions of the target spacetime of the bosonic string could somehow be identified with the dimensions of the heterotic string was previously voiced in
The possibility of a bosonic M-theory in 27-dimensions which is the lift of actual M-theory through KK-compactification on 16-dimensional Cayley plane fibers:
Hisham Sati, bundles in M-theory, Commun. Num. Theor. Phys 3:495-530,2009 (arXiv:0807.4899)
Hisham Sati, On the geometry of the supermultiplet in M-theory, Int. J. Geom. Meth. Mod. Phys. 8 (2011) 1-33 (arXiv:0909.4737)
Michael Rios, Alessio Marrani, David Chester, The Geometry of Exceptional Super Yang-Mills Theories, Phys. Rev. D 99 (2019) 046004 [arXiv:1811.06101, doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.046004]
(relating also to 12-dimensional supergravity, D=14 supersymmetry et al.)
Michael Rios, Alessio Marrani, David Chester, Exceptional Super Yang-Mills in and Worldvolume M-Theory, Phys. Lett. B 808 (2020) 135674 [arXiv:1906.10709, doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135674]
reviewed in:
Relation to the Monster group, Moonshine and the Monster vertex operator algebra:
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