Construction of all N=4 conformal supergravities

Daniel Butter, Franz Ciceri, Bernard de Wit, and Bindusar Sahoo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 081602 – Published 21 February 2017

Abstract

All N=4 conformal supergravities in four space-time dimensions are constructed. These are the only N=4 supergravity theories whose actions are invariant under off-shell supersymmetry. They are encoded in terms of a holomorphic function that is homogeneous of zeroth degree in scalar fields that parametrize an SU(1,1)/U(1) coset space. When this function equals a constant the Lagrangian is invariant under continuous SU(1,1) transformations. The construction of these higher-derivative invariants also opens the door to various applications for nonconformal theories.

  • Received 29 September 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.081602

© 2017 American Physical Society

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Particles & Fields

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Daniel Butter1, Franz Ciceri1, Bernard de Wit1,2, and Bindusar Sahoo3

  • 1Nikhef, Science Park 105, 1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, Princetonlaan 5, 3584 CC Utrecht, Netherlands
  • 3Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 695016, India

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Vol. 118, Iss. 8 — 24 February 2017

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