Supersymmetric 3D model for gravity with SU(2) gauge symmetry, mass generation and effective cosmological constant

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/17/175014MaRDI QIDQ3447644zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pedro D. Alvarez, Pablo Pais, Eduardo Rodríguez, Patricio Salgado-Rebolledo, Jorge Zanelli

Publication date 27 October 2015

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.03834

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-SimonsgraphenegravitysupersymmetryWeyl symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Supergravity (83E50)

Abstract: A Chern--Simons system in $2+1$ dimensions invariant under local Lorentz rotations, $SU(2)$ gauge transformations, and local $mathcalN=2$ supersymmetry transformations is proposed. The field content is that of $(2+1)$-gravity plus an $SU(2)$ gauge field, a spin-1/2 fermion charged with respect to $SU(2)$ and a trivial free abelian gauge field. A peculiarity of the model is the absence of gravitini, although it includes gravity and supersymmetry. Likewise, no gauginos are present. All the parameters involved in the system are either protected by gauge invariance or emerge as integration constants. An effective mass and effective cosmological constant emerge by spontaneus breaking of local scaling invariance. The vacuum sector is defined by configurations with locally flat Lorentz and $SU(2)$ connections sporting nontrivial global charges. Three-dimensional Lorentz-flat geometries are spacetimes of locally constant negative --or zero--, Riemann curvature, which include Minkowski space, AdS${}_3$, BTZ black holes, and point particles. These solutions admit different numbers of globally defined, covariantly constant spinors and are therefore good candidates for stable ground states. The fermionic sector in this system could describe the dynamics of electrons in graphene in the long wavelength limit near the Dirac points, with the spin degree of freedom of the electrons represented by the $SU(2)$ label. If this is the case, the $SU(2)$ gauge field would produce a spin-spin interaction giving rise to strong correlation of electron pairs.

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