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The Cauchy problem in extended supergravity,N=1,d=11

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We prove the Grassmann valued system of extended supergravityN=1,d=11 proposed by Cremmer and Julia is well proposed and causal.

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Choquet-Bruhat, Y. The Cauchy problem in extended supergravity,N=1,d=11. Commun.Math. Phys. 97, 541–552 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01221216

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