Complex three-form supergravity and membranes

Abstract There exist two variants of the old minimal formulation for N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 1 supergravity in four dimensions, in which one or each of the two auxiliary scalars is replaced by the field strength of a gauge three-form. These theories are known as three-form supergravity and complex thr...

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Main Authors: Sergei M. Kuzenko, Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-12-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP12(2017)005
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Summary:Abstract There exist two variants of the old minimal formulation for N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 1 supergravity in four dimensions, in which one or each of the two auxiliary scalars is replaced by the field strength of a gauge three-form. These theories are known as three-form supergravity and complex three-form supergravity, respectively. For each of them, we present a super-Weyl invariant coupling of supergravity to the supermembrane and prove kappa-invariance of the resulting action. In the case of three-form supergravity, we demonstrate that the action constructed reduces to that given by Ovrut and Waldram twenty years ago upon imposing a super-Weyl gauge in which the compensating three-form superfield is set to a constant.
ISSN:1029-8479