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Properties of an alternative off-shell formulation of 4D supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-04-12 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

This article elaborates on an off-shell formulation of D=4, N=1 supergravity whose auxiliary fields comprise an antisymmetric tensor field without gauge degrees of freedom. In particular, the relation to new minimal supergravity, a supercovariant tensor calculus and the construction of invariant actions including matter fields are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2101.05724,
  title  = {Properties of an alternative off-shell formulation of 4D supergravity},
  author = {Friedemann Brandt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.05724},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

17 pages; v2: eq. (2.27) and typos corrected, text improved; v3: typo in eq. (3.24) corrected, some text at end of sec. 2 and style of refs. adapted to published version