Simple d = 4 supergravity with a boundary

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/069MaRDI QIDQ445581zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dmitry V. Belyaev, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

Publication date 26 August 2012

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

supergravity with a boundary

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supergravity (83E50)

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.

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