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In\"on\"u-Wigner Contraction and $D=2+1$ Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-03-08 v3

Abstract

We present a generalization of the standard In\"on\"u-Wigner contraction by rescaling not only the generators of a Lie superalgebra but also the arbitrary constants appearing in the components of the invariant tensor. The procedure presented here allows to obtain explicitly the Chern-Simons supergravity action of a contracted superalgebra. In particular we show that the Poincar\'e limit can be performed to a D=2+1D=2+1 (p,q)\left(p,q\right) % AdS Chern-Simons supergravity in presence of the exotic form. We also construct a new three-dimensional (2,0)\left(2,0\right) Maxwell Chern-Simons supergravity theory as a particular limit of (2,0)\left(2,0\right) AdSAdS -Lorentz supergravity theory. The generalization for N=p+q\mathcal{N}=p+q gravitini is also considered.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1611.05018,
  title  = {In\"on\"u-Wigner Contraction and $D=2+1$ Supergravity},
  author = {P. K. Concha and O. Fierro and E. K. Rodríguez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.05018},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

v3, 34 pages, version accepted for publication in the European Physical Journal C

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