Off-shell Poincaré supergravity

We present the action and transformation rules of Poincaré supergravity coupled to chiral multiplets (z[superscript α], χ[superscript α], h[superscript α] ) with off-shell auxiliary fields. Starting from the geometric formulation of the superconformal theory with auxiliary fields, we derive the Poin...

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Main Authors: Roest, Diederik, Van Proeyen, Antoine, Freedman, Daniel Z
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116642
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8408-1941
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Summary:We present the action and transformation rules of Poincaré supergravity coupled to chiral multiplets (z[superscript α], χ[superscript α], h[superscript α] ) with off-shell auxiliary fields. Starting from the geometric formulation of the superconformal theory with auxiliary fields, we derive the Poincaré counterpart by gauge-fixing the Weyl and chiral symmetry and S-supersymmetry. We show how this transition is facilitated by retaining explicit target-space covariance. Our results form a convenient starting point to study models with constrained superfields, including general matter-coupled de Sitter supergravity. Keywords: Supergravity Models, Supersymmetric Effective Theories, Supersymmetry Breaking