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We construct a dilaton Weyl multiplet for $N = 3$ conformal supergravity in four dimensions. We couple an on-shell vector multiplet to the standard Weyl multiplet and use the field equations of the vector multiplet to replace some of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-05 Soumya Adhikari , Aravind Aikot , Madhu Mishra , Bindusar Sahoo

Projective superspace provides a natural framework for the construction of actions coupling hypermultiplets to conformal supergravity. We review how the off-shell actions are formulated in superspace and then discuss how to eliminate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-10 Daniel Butter

All N=4 conformal supergravities in four space-time dimensions are constructed. These are the only N=4 supergravity theories whose actions are invariant under off-shell supersymmetry. They are encoded in terms of a holomorphic function that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-31 Daniel Butter , Franz Ciceri , Bernard de Wit , Bindusar Sahoo

Using the harmonic superspace approach, we construct, at the linearized level, $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric curvatures generalizing scalar curvature, Ricci curvature and Weyl tensor. These supercurvatures are the building blocks of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-26 Evgeny Ivanov , Nikita Zaigraev

Making use of the known off-shell formulations for massless higher-spin ${\cal N}=1$ supermultiplets in four dimensions, gauge-invariant off-shell actions for massive higher-spin ${\cal N}=2$ supermultiplets in three dimensions (3D) are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Evgeny I. Buchbinder , Arcadia J. Fegebank , Sergei M. Kuzenko

We develop a superspace formulation for ${\cal N}=3$ conformal supergravity in four spacetime dimensions as a gauge theory of the superconformal group $\mathsf{SU}(2,2|3)$. Upon imposing certain covariant constraints, the algebra of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-22 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Emmanouil S. N. Raptakis

We propose a superspace formulation for the Weyl multiplet of N=1 conformal supergravity in five dimensions. The corresponding superspace constraints are invariant under super-Weyl transformations generated by a real scalar parameter. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-19 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

We present theories of N=2 hypermultiplets in four spacetime dimensions that are invariant under rigid or local superconformal symmetries. The target spaces of theories with rigid superconformal invariance are (4n)-dimensional {\it special}…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Bernard de Wit , Bas Kleijn , Stefan Vandoren

A systematic off-shell reduction scheme from five to four space-time dimensions is presented for supergravity theories with eight supercharges. It is applicable to theories with higher-derivative couplings and it is used to address a number…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Nabamita Banerjee , Bernard de Wit , Stefanos Katmadas

The local supertwistor formalism, which involves a superconformal connection acting on the bundle of such objects over superspace, is used to investigate superconformal geometry in six dimensions. The geometry corresponding to (1, 0) and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 P. S. Howe , U. Lindström

We develop a formalism to construct supersymmetric backgrounds within the superspace formulation for five-dimensional (5D) conformal supergravity given in arXiv:0802.3953. Our approach is applicable to any off-shell formulation for 5D…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-08 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Joseph Novak , Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

We construct, for the first time, an off-shell supersymmetric continuous spin gauge theory in 4-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, in both constrained and unconstrained Lagrangian formulations. As an extension to the on-shell description [1],…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-08 Mojtaba Najafizadeh

We use the superconformal method to construct the full off-shell action of N=(1,0), D=6 supergravity, which has apart from the graviton and the gravitino, a 2-form gauge field, a dilaton and a symplectic Majorana spinor. We give detailed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-31 Frederik Coomans , Antoine Van Proeyen

By extending the recent analysis of arXiv:2203.12203 for ${\mathcal{N}}=2$ conformal supergravity in four dimensions, we define new hyper-dilaton Weyl multiplets for five-dimensional ${\mathcal{N}}=1$, and six-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Jessica Hutomo , Saurish Khandelwal , Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli , Jesse Woods

We construct an off-shell $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal cubic vertex for the hypermultiplet coupled to an arbitrary integer higher spin ${\bf s}$ gauge $\mathcal{N}=2$ supermultiplet % in flatfour-dimensional space. in a general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-13 Ioseph Buchbinder , Evgeny Ivanov , Nikita Zaigraev

We propose a superspace formulation of N=(1,0) conformal supergravity in six dimensions. The corresponding superspace constraints are invariant under super-Weyl transformations generated by a real scalar parameter. The known variant Weyl…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-08 William D. Linch , Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

We consider 2+1 dimensional off-shell N = 1 pure supergravity that is constructed from graviton, gravitino and auxiliary field. We show that the $R^2$ supersymmetric invariant and $R^2_{\mu \nu}$ supersymmetric invariant are expressed as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Norihiro Iizuka , Akinori Tanaka

N=2 conformal supergravity in five dimensions is constructed via a systematic off-shell reduction scheme from maximal conformal supergravity in six dimensions which is (2,0). The dimensional reduction of the (2,0) Weyl multiplet in six…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-09 Soumya Adhikari , Bindusar Sahoo

When a globally supersymmetric theory is scale invariant, it must possess a Virial supercurrent supermultiplet. The multiplet structure is analogous to the R-current supermultiplet in globally R-symmetric theories but we put extra "$i$"s in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Yu Nakayama

Killing spinor identities relate components of equations of motion to each other for supersymmetric backgrounds. The only input required is the field content and the supersymmetry transformations of the fields, as long as an on-shell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-24 Federico Bonetti , Dietmar Klemm , Wafic A. Sabra , Peter Sloane