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Gauged Supergravity from Dimensional Reduction

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v2

Abstract

We perform a generalised Scherk-Schwarz reduction of the effective action of the heterotic string on T^6 to obtain a massive N=4 supergravity theory in four dimensions. The local symmetry-group of the resulting d=4 theory includes a Heisenberg group, which is a subgroup of the global O(6,6+n) obtained in the standard reduction. We show explicitly that the same theory can be obtained by gauging this Heisenberg group in d=4, N=4 supergravity.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9707130,
  title  = {Gauged Supergravity from Dimensional Reduction},
  author = {E. Bergshoeff and M. de Roo and E. Eyras},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9707130},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, LaTeX, no figures, one reference added