Duality in supergravity theories

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(94)90389-1zbMATH Open1007.83523arXivhep-th/9309143OpenAlexW3098503210MaRDI QIDQ1967587FDOQ1967587

Authors: Antonio Candiello, Kurt Lechner 

Publication date: 6 March 2000

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

Abstract: We present a unified treatment in superspace of the two dual formulations of $D=10$, $N=1$ {it pure} supergravity based on a strictly super-geometrical framework: the only fundamental objects are the super Riemann curvature and torsion, and the related Bianchi identities are sufficient to set the theory on shell; there is no need to introduce, from the beginning, closed three- or seven-superforms. This formulation extends also to {it non minimal} models. Moreover, in this framework the algebraic analogy between pure super Yang--Mills theories and pure supergravity in $D=10$ is manifest. As an additional outcome in the present formulation the supersymmetric partner of the ABBJ-Lorentz anomaly in pure $D=10$ supergravity can be computed in complete analogy to the ABBJ-gauge anomaly in supersymmetric Yang--Mills theories in ten dimensions. In the same framework we attack the issue of duality in $N=1$, $D=11$ supergravity showing in detail that duality holds at the kinematical level in superspace while it is broken by the dynamics. We discuss also possible extensions of this theory which could be related to quantum corrections of the eleven dimensional membrane.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9309143

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50)

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