Vacuum structure in a chiral R+R^n modification of pure supergravity

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2013.10.027MaRDI QIDQ5963935zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sergio Ferrara, A. Kehagias, M. Porrati

Publication date 26 February 2016

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.0399

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supergravity (83E50) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20)

Abstract: We discuss an $calR+{calR}^n$ class of modified $calN=1$, D=4 supergravity models where the deformation is a monomial $$ in the chiral scalar curvature multiplet $calR$ of the "old minimal" auxiliary field formulation. The scalaron and goldstino multiplets are dual to each other in this theory. Since one of them is not dynamical, this theory, as recently shown, cannot be used as the supersymmetric completion of $R+R^n$ gravity. This is confirmed by investigating the scalar potential and its critical points in the dual standard supergravity formulation with a single chiral multiplet with specific K"ahler potential and superpotential. We study the vacuum structure of this dual theory and we find that there is always a supersymmetric Minkowski critical point which however is pathological for $ngeq3$ as it corresponds to a corner ($n=3$) and a cusp ($n>3$) point of the potential. For $n>3$ an anti-de Sitter regular supersymmetric vacuum emerges. As a result, this class of models are not appropriate to describe inflation. We also find the mass spectrum and we provide a general formula for the masses of the scalars of a chiral multiplet around the anti-de Sitter critical point and their relation to $osp(1,4)$ unitary representations.

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