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3D gauged supergravity from SU(2) reduction of $N=1$ 6D supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-07-30 v2

Abstract

We obtain Yang-Mills SU(2)×GSU(2)\times G gauged supergravity in three dimensions from SU(2)SU(2) group manifold reduction of (1,0) six dimensional supergravity coupled to an anti-symmetric tensor multiplet and gauge vector multiplets in the adjoint of GG. The reduced theory is consistently truncated to N=4N=4 3D supergravity coupled to 4(1+dimG)4(1+\textrm{dim}\, G) bosonic and 4(1+dimG)4(1+\textrm{dim}\, G) fermionic propagating degrees of freedom. This is in contrast to the reduction in which there are also massive vector fields. The scalar manifold is R×SO(3,dimG)SO(3)×SO(dimG)\mathbf{R}\times \frac{SO(3,\, \textrm{dim}\, G)}{SO(3)\times SO(\textrm{dim}\, G)}, and there is a SU(2)×GSU(2)\times G gauge group. We then construct N=4N=4 Chern-Simons (SO(3)R3)×(GRdimG)(SO(3)\ltimes \mathbf{R}^3)\times (G\ltimes \mathbf{R}^{\textrm{dim}G}) three dimensional gauged supergravity with scalar manifold SO(4,1+dimG)SO(4)×SO(1+dimG)\frac{SO(4,\,1+\textrm{dim}G)}{SO(4)\times SO(1+\textrm{dim}G)} and explicitly show that this theory is on-shell equivalent to the Yang-Mills SO(3)×GSO(3)\times G gauged supergravity theory obtained from the SU(2)SU(2) reduction, after integrating out the scalars and gauge fields corresponding to the translational symmetries R3×RdimG\mathbf{R}^3\times \mathbf{R}^{\textrm{dim}\, G}.

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@article{arxiv.1006.4997,
  title  = {3D gauged supergravity from SU(2) reduction of $N=1$ 6D supergravity},
  author = {Edi Gava and Parinya Karndumri and K. S. Narain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.4997},
  year   = {2012}
}

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24 pages, no figures, references added and typos corrected