Supergravities without an action: gauging the trombone

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2008.11.010zbMATH Open1194.83100arXiv0809.5180OpenAlexW1990512448MaRDI QIDQ993084FDOQ993084

Henning Samtleben, Arnaud Le Diffon

Publication date: 10 September 2010

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

Abstract: We present a systematic account of supergravity theories in which the global scaling symmetry is gauged. This generalizes the standard gaugings of non-abelian off-shell symmetries. A particular feature of these theories is an additional positive contribution to the effective cosmological constant. As the scaling symmetry is an on-shell symmetry, the resulting gaugings do no longer possess an action. We develop the algebraic framework for the maximal theories in various dimensions and construct explicit solutions to the algebraic consistency constraints - related to `pure-spinor-like' structures for the exceptional groups. As an example, we explicitly work out the modified supersymmetry transformation rules and equations of motion in three dimensions. Finally, we speculate about the role of these theories from the perspective of very extended Kac-Moody algebras.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.5180

zbMATH Keywords

effective cosmological constantgauged global scaling symmetrymodified supersymmetry transformation rulesnon-abelian off-shell symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Supergravity (83E50)

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