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Complex three-form supergravity and membranes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-01-17 v1

Abstract

There exist two variants of the old minimal formulation for N=1{\cal N}=1 supergravity in four dimensions, in which one or each of the two auxiliary scalars is replaced by the field strength of a gauge three-form. These theories are known as three-form supergravity and complex three-form supergravity, respectively. For each of them, we present a super-Weyl invariant coupling of supergravity to the supermembrane and prove kappa-invariance of the resulting action. In the case of three-form supergravity, we demonstrate that the action constructed reduces to that given by Ovrut and Waldram twenty years ago upon imposing a super-Weyl gauge in which the compensating three-form superfield is set to a constant.

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@article{arxiv.1710.00535,
  title  = {Complex three-form supergravity and membranes},
  author = {Sergei M. Kuzenko and Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.00535},
  year   = {2018}
}

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22 pages

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