A locally supersymmetric SO(10, 2) invariant action for D = 12 supergravity

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Abstract: We present an action for N=1 supergravity in 10+2 dimensions, containing the gauge fields of the OSp(1|64) superalgebra, i.e. one-forms B(n) with n=1,2,5,6,9,10 antisymmetric D=12 Lorentz indices and a Majorana gravitino psi. The vielbein and spin connection correspond to B(1) and B(2) respectively. The action is not gauge invariant under the full OSp(1|64) superalgebra, but only under a subalgebra ildeF (containing the F algebra OSp(1|32)), whose gauge fields are B(2), B(6), B(10) and the Weyl projected Majorana gravitino 1over2(1+Gamma13)psi. Supersymmetry transformations are therefore generated by a Majorana-Weyl supercharge and, being part of a gauge superalgebra, close off-shell. The action is simply where is the OSp(1|64) curvature supermatrix two-form, and is a constant supermatrix involving Gamma13 and breaking OSp(1|64) to its ildeF subalgebra. The action includes the usual Einstein-Hilbert term.









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