Gauge-fixing local H symmetry in supergravities
Abstract
We discuss known maximal D-dimensional supergravities of two types: type I with G/H coset spaces and type II derived by compactification from higher dimensions without dualization, these have less manifest symmetries. In 4D and 6D in type I models we perform explicit gauge-fixing of local H symmetries in unitary gauges: symmetric, Iwasawa, and partial Iwasawa. In 4D supergravity I in symmetric gauge global H-invariance and nonlinearly realized G-symmetry are valid on shell, classically. The global H-symmetry and G-symmetry in Iwasawa-type gauges in type I and type II supergravities are not manifest, if at all present. This fact raises the issue of the gauge equivalence of the S-matrix of various gauge-fixed D-dimensional supergravities and its relation to the ones computable using superamplitude methods.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2409.18950,
title = {Gauge-fixing local H symmetry in supergravities},
author = {Renata Kallosh and Henning Samtleben and Antoine Van Proeyen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.18950},
year = {2024}
}
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