From Diophantus to supergravity and massless higher spin multiplets

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2017)063zbMATH Open1383.83209arXiv1707.00194OpenAlexW2731830631MaRDI QIDQ1706872FDOQ1706872

Authors: S. J. jun. Gates, Konstantinos Koutrolikos 

Publication date: 28 March 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a new method of deriving the off-shell spectrum of supergravity and massless $4D,mathcalN=1$ higher spin multiplets without the need of an action and based on a set of natural requirements: (a.) existence of an underlying superspace description, (b.) an economical description of free, massless, higher spins and (c.) equal numbers of bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom. We prove that for any theory that respects the above, the fermionic auxiliary components come in pairs and are gauge invariant and there are two types of bosonic auxiliary components. Type (1) are pairs of a $(2,0)$-tensor with real or imaginary $(1,1)$-tensor with non-trivial gauge transformations. Type (2) are singlets and gauge invariant. The outcome is a set of Diophantine equations, the solutions of which determine the off-shell spectrum of supergravity and massless higher spin multiplets. This approach provides (i) a classification of the irreducible, supersymmetric, representations of arbitrary spin and (ii) a very clean and intuitive explanation to why some of these theories have more than one formulations (e.g. the supergravity multiplet) and others do not.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00194

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zbMATH Keywords

supergravity modelssuperspacessupersymmetric effective theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Supergravity (83E50)

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• Higher spin dark matter
• Superspace first order formalism, trivial symmetries and electromagnetic interactions of linearized supergravity
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• Progress on cubic interactions of arbitrary superspin supermultiplets via gauge invariant supercurrents
• Integer superspin supercurrents of matter supermultiplets
• Higher-dimensional supertranslations and Weinberg's soft graviton theorem
• Towards a direct detection of the spin of dark matter
• (Dis)continuities of massless limits in spin-\(3/2\)-mediated interactions and cosmological supergravity
• Higher spin superfield interactions with complex linear supermultiplet: conserved supercurrents and cubic vertices
• Conserved higher spin supercurrents for arbitrary spin massless supermultiplets and higher spin superfield cubic interactions
• Unconstrained off-shell superfield formulation of \(4D\), \(\mathcal{N} = 2\) supersymmetric higher spins

Uses Software

• Adinkras

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