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N=4 conformal supergravity: the complete actions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-01-29 v2

Abstract

The most general class of 4D N=4 conformal supergravity actions depends on a holomorphic function of the scalar fields that parametrize an SU(1,1)/U(1) coset space. The bosonic sector of these actions was presented in a letter [arXiv:1609.09083]. Here we provide the complete actions to all orders in the fermion fields. They rely upon a new N=4 density formula, which permits a direct but involved construction. This density formula also recovers the on-shell action for vector multiplets coupled to conformal supergravity. Applications of these results in the context of Poincar\'e supergravity are briefly discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1910.11874,
  title  = {N=4 conformal supergravity: the complete actions},
  author = {Daniel Butter and Franz Ciceri and Bindusar Sahoo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.11874},
  year   = {2020}
}

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v2: 44 pages, supplementary file added to ancillary files

R2 v1 2026-06-23T11:55:15.797Z