New Massive Supergravity and Auxiliary Fields
High Energy Physics - Theory
2013-09-10 v2
Abstract
We construct a supersymmetric formulation of linearized New Massive Gravity without introducing higher derivatives. Instead, we introduce supersymmetrically a set of bosonic and fermionic auxiliary fields which, upon elimination by their equations of motion, introduce fourth-order derivative terms for the metric and third-order derivative terms for the gravitino. Our construction requires an off-shell formulation of the three-dimensional supersymmetric massive Fierz-Pauli theory. We discuss the non-linear extension of our results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1304.5445,
title = {New Massive Supergravity and Auxiliary Fields},
author = {Eric A. Bergshoeff and Marija Kovacevic and Lorena Parra and Jan Rosseel and Yihao Yin and Thomas Zojer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.5445},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
31 pages; v2: minor changes, added references/published version