Supergravity and the Poincaré group

P. Salgado, M. Cataldo, and S. del Campo
Phys. Rev. D 65, 084032 – Published 8 April 2002
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Abstract

An action for (3+1)-dimensional supergravity genuinely invariant under the Poincaré supergroup is proposed. The construction of the action is carried out considering a bosonic Lagrangian invariant under both local Lorentz rotations and local Poincaré translations as well as under diffeomorphism, and therefore the Poincaré algebra closes off shell. Since the Lagrangian is invariant under the Poincaré supergroup, the supersymmetry algebra closes off shell without the need for auxiliary fields.

  • Received 25 May 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.65.084032

©2002 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

P. Salgado*

  • Departamento de Física, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C, Concepción, Chile

M. Cataldo

  • Departamento de Física, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Casilla 5-C, Concepción, Chile

S. del Campo

  • Instituto de Física, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Avda Brasil 2950, Valparaíso, Chile

  • *Electronic address: pasalgad@udec.cl
  • Electronic address: mcataldo@ubiobio.cl
  • Electronic address: sdelcamp@ucv.cl

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Vol. 65, Iss. 8 — 15 April 2002

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