Gauge Fixing for Gravity Coupled Theories and the Super Higgs Effect Beyond the Unitary Gauge

Baulieu, Laurent; Georges, Antoine; Ouvry, Stephane

doi:10.1016/0550-3213(86)90251-8

Gauge Fixing for Gravity Coupled Theories and the Super Higgs Effect Beyond the Unitary Gauge

Laurent Baulieu
(
- Orsay, LPT
)
,
Antoine Georges
(
- Ecole Normale Superieure
)
,
Stephane Ouvry
(
- Orsay, IPN and
- Paris U., VI-VII
)

Dec, 1985

21 pages

Published in:

Nucl.Phys.B 273 (1986) 366-386

Published: 1986

DOI:

10.1016/0550-3213(86)90251-8

Report number:

LPTENS-85-36

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A straightforward gauge-fixing procedure is presented for a general gauge theory coupled to gravity, which relies on the geometrical nature of the BRS symmetry. It promotes the Stueckelberg “auxiliary” field (and its generalizations) to the level of a fundamental quantum field, like ghosts and antighosts. In this way, the Nielsen-Kallosh phenomenon is fully clarified, and a complete derivation of the quantum lagrangian of N = 1, D = 4 “new minimal” supergravity is given. As an output we analyze the super-Higgs effect beyond the unitary gauge and find a particularly simple gauge analogous to the 't Hooft-Feynman one for spontaneously broken Yang-Mills theories.

SUPERGRAVITY
GAUGE FIELD THEORY: YANG-MILLS
GAUGE FIELD THEORY: TENSOR
GAUGE FIELD THEORY: GHOST
TRANSFORMATION: BECCHI-ROUET-STORA
DEPENDENCE: GAUGE
Higgs mechanism

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