Higher derivative supergravities in diverse dimensions

Jan 16, 2024
156 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rept. 1086 (2024) 1-95
  • Published: Aug 3, 2024
    and
  • Published: Oct 3, 2024
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Report number:
  • MI-HET-826

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Abstract: (Elsevier B.V.)
We survey on-shell and off-shell higher derivative supergravities in dimensions 1D11. Various approaches to their construction, including the Noether procedure, (harmonic) superspace, superform method, superconformal tensor calculus, S-matrix and dimensional reduction, are summarized. Primarily the bosonic parts of the invariants and the supertransformations of the fermionic fields are provided. The process of going on-shell, solutions to the Killing spinor equations, typical supersymmetric solutions, and the role of duality symmetries in the context of R4,D4R4 and D6R4 invariants are reviewed.
Note:
  • 156 pages, discussions and references added, typos fixed. Version to appear in Physics Reports
  • Supergravity
  • Quantum gravity
  • Strings and branes
  • Compactification and four-dimensional models
  • Higher-dimensional gravity and other theories of gravity
  • derivative: high
  • symmetry: duality
  • tensor: conformal
  • spinor: Killing
  • supergravity