Background field formalism for chiral matter and gauge fields conformally coupled to supergravity

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.11.018MaRDI QIDQ620700zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Butter

Publication date 19 January 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4901

zbMATH Keywords

superspacesupergravitybackground field formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functional analysis on superspaces (supermanifolds) or graded spaces (46S60) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We expand the generic model involving chiral matter, super Yang-Mills gauge fields, and supergravity to second order in the gravity and gauge prepotentials in a manifestly covariant and conformal way. Such a class of models includes conventional chiral matter coupled to supergravity via a conformal compensator. This is a first step toward calculating one-loop effects in supergravity in a way that does not require a perturbative expansion in the inverse Planck scale or a recourse to component level calculations to handle the coupling of the K"ahler potential to the gravity sector. We also consider a more restrictive model involving a linear superfield in the role of the conformal compensator and investigate the similarities it has to the dual chiral model.

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