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Localization of supergravity on the brane

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

A supersymmetric Randall-Sundrum brane-world demands that not merely the graviton but the entire supergravity multiplet be trapped on the brane. To demonstrate this, we present a complete ansatz for the reduction of (D=5,N=4) gauged supergravity to (D=4,N=2) ungauged supergravity in the Randall-Sundrum geometry. We verify that it is consistent to lowest order in fermion terms. In particular, we show how the graviphotons avoid the `no photons on the brane' result because they do not originate from Maxwell's equations in D=5 but rather from odd-dimensional self-duality equations. In the case of the fivebrane, the Randall-Sundrum mechanism also provides a new Kaluza-Klein way of obtaining chiral supergravity starting from non-chiral.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0009212,
  title  = {Localization of supergravity on the brane},
  author = {M. J. Duff and James T. Liu and W. A. Sabra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0009212},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages, Latex, minor improvements, references added

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