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Nov 4, 2014

Imaginary supergravity or Virial supergravity?

Nuclear Physics B
  • Yu Nakayama

Volume
892
Number
First page
288
Last page
305
Language
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2015.01.012

When a globally supersymmetric theory is scale invariant, it must possess a
Virial supercurrent supermultiplet. The multiplet structure is analogous to the
R-current supermultiplet in globally R-symmetric theories but we put extra
"$i$"s in various formulae. We construct a novel type of supergravity from
gauging the Virial supercurrent supermultiplet in $d=1+3$ dimensions. We give
the full non-linear superspace action with the help of a covariantly linear
unitary superconformal compensator. The resulting supergravity is peculiar: (1)
no Einstein-like second order kinetic term is allowed without matter (2) there
exists a dynamical non-geometrical connection (3) the metric is unimodular in
the Wess-Zumino gauge and can be coupled only to scale invariant matter.
Examples of matter couplings and higher derivative kinetic terms are studied
from the superconformal approach. Our work completes the classification of the
irreducible $\mathcal{N}=1$ supergravities in $d=1+3$ dimensions.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2015.01.012
arXiv
http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1411.1057
URL
http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.1057v1
URL
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.1057v1 Open access
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  • DOI : 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2015.01.012
  • ISSN : 0550-3213
  • arXiv ID : arXiv:1411.1057
  • SCOPUS ID : 84921787520

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