A symplectic covariant formulation of special Kähler geometry in superconformal calculus

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/8/305MaRDI QIDQ4701095zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Piet Claus, Kor van Hoof, Antoine van Proeyen

Publication date 21 November 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9904066

zbMATH Keywords

supergravitychiral multipletssymplectic covarianceKähler geometryBianchi identiessuperconformal calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Supergravity (83E50) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Symplectic geometry, contact geometry (53D99)

Abstract: We present a formulation of the coupling of vector multiplets to N=2 supergravity which is symplectic covariant (and thus is not based on a prepotential) and uses superconformal tensor calculus. We do not start from an action, but from the combination of the generalised Bianchi identities of the vector multiplets in superspace, a symplectic definition of special Kahler geometry, and the supersymmetric partners of the corresponding constraints. These involve the breaking to super-Poincare symmetry, and lead to on-shell vector multiplets. This symplectic approach gives the framework to formulate vector multiplet couplings using a weaker defining constraint for special Kahler geometry, which is an extension of older definitions of special Kahler manifolds for some cases with only one vector multiplet.

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