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Chiral Superfields in IIB Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

The field strength superfield of IIB supergravity on AdS5\xzS5AdS_5\xz S^5 is expanded in harmonics on S5S^5 with coefficients which are D=5,N=8D=5, N=8 chiral superfields. On the boundary of AdS5AdS_5 these superfields map to D=4,N=4D=4,N=4 chiral superfields and both sets of superfields obey additional fourth-order constraints. The constraints on the D=4,N=4D=4,N=4 chiral fields are solved using harmonic superspace in terms of prepotential superfields which couple in a natural way to composite operator multiplets of the boundary N=4,D=4N=4,D=4 superconformal field theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0008047,
  title  = {Chiral Superfields in IIB Supergravity},
  author = {P. Heslop and P. S. Howe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0008047},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages. Slightly longer version with more detail about the boundary of AdS superspace