Four-dimensional higher-derivative supergravity and spontaneous supersymmetry breaking

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00281-7zbMATH Open0925.83103arXivhep-th/9511223OpenAlexW1975200747MaRDI QIDQ1920200FDOQ1920200

Authors: Ahmed Hindawi, Burt A. Ovrut, Daniel Waldram 

Publication date: 20 August 1996

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

Abstract: We construct two classes of higher-derivative supergravity theories generalizing Einstein supergravity. We explore their dynamical content as well as their vacuum structure. The first class is found to be equivalent to Einstein supergravity coupled to a single chiral superfield. It has a unique stable vacuum solution except in a special case, when it becomes identical to a simple no-scale theory. The second class is found to be equivalent to Einstein supergravity coupled to two chiral superfields and has a richer vacuum structure. It is demonstrated that theories of the second class can possess a stable vacuum with vanishing cosmological constant that spontaneously breaks supersymmetry. We present an explicit example of this phenomenon and compare the result with the Polonyi model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9511223

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constantLagrangian functionvacuum structureEinstein supergravity generalisationPolonyi model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Supergravity (83E50)

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