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Hyper-Dilaton Weyl Multiplet of 4D, ${\mathcal{N}}=2$ Conformal Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-09-24 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We define a new dilaton Weyl multiplet of N=2{\mathcal{N}}=2 conformal supergravity in four dimensions. This is constructed by reinterpreting the equations of motion of an on-shell hypermultiplet as constraints that render some of the fields of the standard Weyl multiplet composite. The independent bosonic components include four scalar fields and a triplet of gauge two-forms. The resulting, so-called, hyper-dilaton Weyl multiplet defines a 24+2424+24 off-shell representation of the local N=2{\mathcal{N}}=2 superconformal algebra. By coupling the hyper-dilaton Weyl multiplet to an off-shell vector multiplet compensator, we obtain one of the two minimal 32+3232+32 off-shell multiplets of N=2{\mathcal{N}}=2 Poincar\'e supergravity constructed by M\"uller in 1986. On-shell, this contains the minimal N=2{\mathcal{N}}=2 Poincar\'e supergravity multiplet together with a hypermultiplet where one of its physical scalars plays the role of a dilaton, while its three other scalars are dualised to a triplet of real gauge two-forms. Interestingly, a BFBF-coupling induces a scalar potential for the dilaton without a standard gauging.

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@article{arxiv.2203.12203,
  title  = {Hyper-Dilaton Weyl Multiplet of 4D, ${\mathcal{N}}=2$ Conformal Supergravity},
  author = {Gregory Gold and Saurish Khandelwal and William Kitchin and Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.12203},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

v3: typo corrected in eq. (2.33)

R2 v1 2026-06-24T10:22:56.585Z