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Higher Derivative Supergravities in Diverse Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-08-06 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We survey on-shell and off-shell higher derivative supergravities in dimensions 1D111\le D\le 11. Various approaches to their construction, including the Noether procedure, (harmonic) superspace, superform method, superconformal tensor calculus, SS-matrix and dimensional reduction, are summarized. Primarily the bosonic parts of the invariants and the supertransformations of the fermionic fields are provided. The process of going on-shell, solutions to the Killing spinor equations, typical supersymmetric solutions, and the role of duality symmetries in the context of R4,D4R4R^4, D^4 R^4 and D6R4D^6 R^4 invariants are reviewed.

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@article{arxiv.2401.08945,
  title  = {Higher Derivative Supergravities in Diverse Dimensions},
  author = {Mehmet Ozkan and Yi Pang and Ergin Sezgin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.08945},
  year   = {2024}
}

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156 pages, discussions and references added, typos fixed. Version to appear in Physics Reports

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