Quantum inconsistency of Einstein supergravity

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00551-4MaRDI QIDQ1591697zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonathan Bagger, Takeo Moroi, Erich Poppitz

Publication date 8 January 2001

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0003282

zbMATH Keywords

Jacobianlocal supersymmetry transformation anomalysuper-Weyl field redifinition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Supergravity (83E50)

Abstract: We show that N=1, D=4 Einstein-frame supergravity is inconsistent at one loop because of an anomaly in local supersymmetry transformations. A Jacobian must be added to the Einstein-frame Lagrangian to cancel this anomaly. We show how the Jacobian arises from the super-Weyl field redefinition that takes the superspace Lagrangian to the Einstein frame. We present an explicit example which demonstrates that the Jacobian is necessary for one-loop scattering amplitudes to be frame independent.

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