Higher-Derivative Chiral Superfield Actions Coupled to N=1 Supergravity

Koehn, Michael; Lehners, Jean-Luc; Ovrut, Burt A.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.085019

Higher-Derivative Chiral Superfield Actions Coupled to N=1 Supergravity

Jul, 2012

37 pages

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Phys.Rev.D 86 (2012) 085019

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1207.3798 [hep-th]

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10.1103/PhysRevD.86.085019

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We construct N=1 supergravity extensions of scalar field theories with higher-derivative kinetic terms. Special attention is paid to the auxiliary fields, whose elimination leads not only to corrections to the kinetic terms, but to new expressions for the potential energy as well. For example, a potential energy can be generated even in the absence of a superpotential. Our formalism allows one to write a supergravity extension of any higher-derivative scalar field theory and, therefore, has applications to both particle physics and cosmological model building. As an illustration, we couple the higher-derivative DBI action describing a 3-brane in 6-dimensions to N=1 supergravity. This displays a number of new features-- including the fact that, in the regime where the higher-derivative kinetic terms become important, the potential tends to be everywhere negative.

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37 pages, v2: references added

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derivative: high
field theory: scalar
supergravity: 1
potential: energy
Born-Infeld model: action
superfield: chiral
kinetic
cosmological model

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