Tensor calculus for supergravity on a manifold with boundary
Abstract
Using the simple setting of 3D N=1 supergravity, we show how the tensor calculus of supergravity can be extended to manifolds with boundary. We present an extension of the standard F-density formula which yields supersymmetric bulk-plus-boundary actions. To construct additional separately supersymmetric boundary actions, we decompose bulk supergravity and bulk matter multiplets into co-dimension one submultiplets. As an illustration we obtain the supersymmetric extension of the York-Gibbons-Hawking extrinsic curvature boundary term. We emphasize that our construction does not require any boundary conditions on off-shell fields. This gives a significant improvement over the existing orbifold supergravity tensor calculus.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0711.2272,
title = {Tensor calculus for supergravity on a manifold with boundary},
author = {Dmitry V. Belyaev and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.2272},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
20 pages, JHEP format; published version