Gauged Seven-dimensional Supergravity
P.K. Townsend (Ecole Normale Superieure), P. van Nieuwenhuizen (CERN)

Jan 1983 - 6 pages

  • Phys.Lett. 125B (1983) 41-46
    In *Salam, A. (ed.), Sezgin, E. (ed.): Supergravities in diverse dimensions, vol. 1* 298-303. (Phys. Lett. B125 (1983) 41-46) and CERN Geneva - TH. 3508 (83,rec.Mar.) 10 p. (see Book Index)
  • (1983)
  • DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(83)91230-3
  • CERN-TH-3508

Abstract (Elsevier)
We construct Yang-Mills theory and simple supergravity in seven dimensions. We gauge the rigid SU(2) symmetry of the latter. The potential for the scalar field φ is of the form exp(φ) and has no extremum. Possible improvement due to a “topological mass term” is discussed.


Keyword(s): INSPIRE: gauge field theory: Yang-Mills | dimension: 7 | supergravity | symmetry: SU(2) | Kaluza-Klein model | mass: topological
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