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N=8 Supergravity in Central Charge Superspace

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We present a geometrical description of N=8 supergravity, using central charge superspace. The essential properties of the multiplet, like self-duality properties of the vectors or the non-linear sigma model structure of the scalars, are found as consequences of constraints at 0 and 1/2 canonical dimension. We also present in detail how to derive from this geometrical formulation the supergravity transformations as well as the whole equations of motion for the component fields in order to compare them with the results already known and obtained in formulations on the component level.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0209035,
  title  = {N=8 Supergravity in Central Charge Superspace},
  author = {Annamaria Kiss and Emmanuel Loyer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0209035},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

31 pages, corrections with regard to two references