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Weyl Covariance, and Proposals for Superconformal Prepotentials in 10D Superspaces

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-03-23 v4

Abstract

Proposals are made to describe the Weyl scaling transformation laws of supercovariant derivatives A\nabla{}_{\underline A}, the torsion supertensors TABCT{}_{{\underline A} \, {\underline B}}{}^{{\underline C}}, and curvature supertensors RABcdR{}_{{\underline A} \, {\underline B}}{}_{\, \underline c} {}^{\underline d} in 10D superspaces. Starting from the proposal that an unconstrained supergravity prepotential for the 11D, N\mathcal{N} = 1 theory is described by a scalar superfield, considerations for supergravity prepotentials in the 10D theories are enumerated. We derive infinitesimal 10D superspace Weyl transformation laws and discover ten possible 10D, N\mathcal{N} = 1 superfield supergravity prepotentials. The first identification of all off-shell ten dimensional supergeometrical Weyl field strength tensors, constructed from respective torsions, is presented.

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@article{arxiv.2007.05097,
  title  = {Weyl Covariance, and Proposals for Superconformal Prepotentials in 10D Superspaces},
  author = {S. James Gates, and Yangrui Hu and S. -N. Hazel Mak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.05097},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

LaTeX Twice, 45 pages, v2. contains additional references, v3. includes clarification between W-Z and S-S superspace, and relation to pure spinor formulations