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Aspects of Weyl Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-09-26 v3

Abstract

In this paper we study the spectrum of all conformal, N{\cal N}-extended supergravities (N=1,2,3,4{\cal N}=1,2,3,4) in four space-time dimensions. When these theories are obtained as massless limit of Einstein plus Weyl2^2supergravity, the appropriate counting of the enhanced gauge symmetries allow us to derive the massless spectrum which consist of a dipole ghost graviton multiplet, a N{\cal N}-fold tripole ghost gravitino, the third state belonging to a spin 3/2 multiplet and a residual vector multiplet present for non-maximal N<4{\cal N}<4 theories. These theories are not expected to have a standard gravity holographic dual in five dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.1806.10016,
  title  = {Aspects of Weyl Supergravity},
  author = {Sergio Ferrara and Alex Kehagias and Dieter Lust},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.10016},
  year   = {2018}
}

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23 pages, Replaced version agrees with published version in JHEP

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