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Superfield Description of a Self-Dual Supergravity a la MacDowell-Mansouri

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v4

Abstract

Using MacDowell-Mansouri theory, in this work, we investigate a superfield description of the self-dual supergravity a la Ashtekar. We find that in order to reproduce previous results on supersymmetric Ashtekar formalism, it is necessary to properly combine the supersymmetric field-strength in the Lagrangian. We extend our procedure to the case of supersymmetric Ashtekar formalism in eight dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0509169,
  title  = {Superfield Description of a Self-Dual Supergravity a la MacDowell-Mansouri},
  author = {J. A. Nieto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0509169},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

19 pages, Latex; section 6 improved