Complex three-form supergravity and membranes

Sergei M. Kuzenko, Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

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    Abstract

    There exist two variants of the old minimal formulation for N = 1 supergravity in four dimensions, in which one or each of the two auxiliary scalars is replaced by the field strength of a gauge three-form. These theories are known as three-form supergravity and complex three-form supergravity, respectively. For each of them, we present a super-Weyl invariant coupling of supergravity to the supermembrane and prove kappa-invariance of the resulting action. In the case of three-form supergravity, we demonstrate that the action constructed reduces to that given by Ovrut and Waldram twenty years ago upon imposing a super-Weyl gauge in which the compensating three-form superfield is set to a constant.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number5
    JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
    Volume2017
    Issue number12
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2017

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