Nonlocal supergravity

Stefano Giaccari and Leonardo Modesto
Phys. Rev. D 96, 066021 – Published 18 September 2017

Abstract

We propose an N=1 supersymmetric extension for a class of weakly nonlocal four-dimensional gravitational theories. The construction is done in the superspace where the off-shell supersymmetry is manifest. The tree-level perturbative unitarity is explicitly proved both in superfield formalism and in field components. For the minimal nonlocal supergravity the spectrum is the same as in the local theory and in particular it is ghost free. The supersymmetric extension of the nonlocal Starobinsky theory is found as a straightforward application of the formalism.

  • Received 13 January 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.066021

© 2017 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

  1. Research Areas
Particles & FieldsGravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

Authors & Affiliations

Stefano Giaccari1,3,* and Leonardo Modesto2,3,†

  • 1Theoretical Physics Division of Particles and Fields, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Bijenička 32, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
  • 2Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
  • 3Department of Physics & Center for Field Theory and Particle Physics, Fudan University, 200433 Shanghai, China

  • *sgiaccari@phy.hr
  • lmodesto@fudan.edu.cn

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Vol. 96, Iss. 6 — 15 September 2017

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