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Physical states in $N = 1$ supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

By solving the supersymmetry constraints for physical wave-functions, it is shown that the only two allowed bosonic states in N=1 N = 1 supergravity are of the form const.~exp~(±I/)(\pm I / \hbar) , where I I is an action functional of the three-metric. States containing a finite number of fermions are forbidden. In the case that the spatial topology is S3 S^3 , the state const.~exp~(I/)(- I / \hbar) is the wormhole ground state, and the state const.~exp~(I/)(I / \hbar) is the Hartle--Hawking state. N=1 N = 1 supergravity has no quantum ultraviolet divergences, and no quantum corrections.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9304084,
  title  = {Physical states in $N = 1$ supergravity},
  author = {P. D. D'Eath},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9304084},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, DAMTP Preprint DAMTP-R-93-4

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