Simple d = 4 supergravity with a boundary

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DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/069zbMATH Open1245.83074arXiv0806.4723OpenAlexW1973155392MaRDI QIDQ445581FDOQ445581

Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Dmitry V. Belyaev

Publication date: 26 August 2012

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

Abstract: To construct rigidly or locally supersymmetric bulk-plus-boundary actions, one needs an extension of the usual tensor calculus. Its key ingredients are the extended (F-, D-, etc.) density formulas and the rule for the decomposition of bulk multiplets into (co-dimension one) boundary multiplets. Working out these ingredients for d=4 N=1 Poincar'e supergravity, we discover the special role played by R-symmetry (absent in the d=3 N=1 case we studied previously). The U(1)A R-symmetry has to be gauged which leads us to extend the old-minimal set of auxiliary fields S, P, A_mu by a U(1)A compensator a. Our results include the ``F+A density formula, the ``Q+L+A formula for the induced supersymmetry transformations (closing into the standard d=3 N=1 algebra) and demonstration that the compensator a is the first component of the extrinsic curvature multiplet. We rely on the superconformal approach which allows us to perform, in parallel, the same analysis for new-minimal supergravity.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.4723




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