Lagrangians of N=2 Supergravity - Matter Systems

Dec, 1984
40 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 255 (1985) 569-608
  • Published: 1985
Report number:
  • BONN-HE-84-37

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We present explicit expressions for general actions of vector and scalar multiplets coupled to N = 2 supergravity. We outline their construction which is based on the superconformal tensor calculus. The vector multiplets may be associated with a gauge group G which may also act on the scalar multiplets. The latter are naturally described in terms of quaternions; in the simplest case their kinetic terms define a nonlinear sigma model of a quaternionic projective space. We give an extension of the vector multiplet action which is not obtained from a chiral superspace density, and contains a Chern-Simons-type term. Transformation rules are given and the conditions for supersymmetry breaking are defined.
  • supergravity
  • coupling: matter
  • supersymmetry: multiplet
  • field theory: action
  • gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
  • dependence: gauge
  • invariance: conformal
  • symmetry: U(1)
  • symmetry: SU(2)
  • symmetry: chiral