Supergravity and Square Roots of Constraints

1977
5 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 38 (1977) 1106-1110

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Abstract: (APS)
The algebra of the weakly vanishing Hamiltonian generators of localized translations, rotations, and supersymmetry transformations of supergravity theory is found. I argue that supergravity is the square root of ordinary general relativity in the same way as the Dirac equation is the square root of the Klein-Gordon equation and the Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz model is the square root of the spinless string.
  • GRAVITATION
  • FIELD THEORY: SUPERSYMMETRY
  • general relativity