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Off-shell Poincare Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-03-08 v2

Abstract

We present the action and transformation rules of Poincare supergravity coupled to chiral multiplets (zα,χα,hα)(z^\alpha, \chi^\alpha, h^\alpha) with off-shell auxiliary fields. Starting from the geometric formulation of the superconformal theory with auxiliary fields, we derive the Poincare counterpart by gauge-fixing the Weyl and chiral symmetry and S-supersymmetry. We show how this transition is facilitated by retaining explicit target-space covariance. Our results form a convenient starting point to study models with constrained superfields, including general matter-coupled de Sitter supergravity.

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@article{arxiv.1701.05216,
  title  = {Off-shell Poincare Supergravity},
  author = {Daniel Z. Freedman and Diederik Roest and Antoine Van Proeyen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.05216},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

30 pages; v2: version to be published in JHEP