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Aleph-Null Extended Supergravity and Chern-Simons Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-08-27 v1

Abstract

We give generalizations of extended Poincar\'e supergravity with {\it arbitrarily many} supersymmetries in the absence of central charges in three-dimensions by gauging its intrinsic global  SO(N)~SO(N)~ symmetry. We call these \alephnull (Aleph-Null) supergravity theories. We further couple a non-Abelian supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory and an Abelian topological BF theory to \alephnull supergravity. Our result overcomes the previous difficulty for supersymmetrization of Chern-Simons theories beyond  N=4~N=4. This feature is peculiar to the Chern-Simons and BF theories including supergravity in three-dimensions. We also show that dimensional reduction schemes for four-dimensional theories such as  N=1~N=1~ self-dual supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory or  N=1~N=1~ supergravity theory that can generate \alephnull globally and locally supersymmetric theories in three-dimensions. As an interesting application, we present \alephnull supergravity Liouville theory in two-dimensions after appropriate dimensional reduction from three-dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9606090,
  title  = {Aleph-Null Extended Supergravity and Chern-Simons Theories},
  author = {Hitoshi Nishino and S. J. Gates,},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9606090},
  year   = {2012}
}

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17 pages, LATEX file, all macros included