GAUGED SEVEN-DIMENSIONAL SUPERGRAVITY

Jan, 1983
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 125 (1983) 41-46
  • Published: 1983
Report number:
  • CERN-TH-3508

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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.
  • gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
  • dimension: 7
  • supergravity
  • symmetry: SU(2)
  • Kaluza-Klein model
  • mass: topological