CONSTRUCTIVE APPROACH TO SUPERGRAVITY
Dec, 197826 pages
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- Gen.Rel.Grav. 12 (1980) 67-81
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- UCLA/78/TEP/26
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Starting from a first-order formulation of the Lagrangian of noninteracting massless helicity-2 and helicity-3/2 particles, we deduce global supersymmetry transformations. Then, allowing the supersymmetry transformations to become local requires, if supersymmetry is to be maintained, the introduction of a unique primitive interaction through the “gravitino” stress tensor and torsion. Finally, the imposition of exact supersymmetry invariance leads by a short, constructive process to full supergravity and the complete form of the supersymmetry transformations. In particular, no explicit use is made of general coordinate invariance, and the self-consistency of the gravitational coupling emerges from the local supersymmetry requirement alone.- FIELD THEORY: SUPERSYMMETRY
- GRAVITATION: SUPERSYMMETRY
- FIELD EQUATIONS
- TRANSFORMATION: SUPERSYMMETRY
- FIELD THEORY: INTERACTION
- INTERACTION: FIELD THEORY
- FIELD THEORY: MASSLESS
- MASSLESS: FIELD THEORY
- HELICITY
- POSTULATED PARTICLE: GRAVITINO
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