Abstract
Abstract: There exists two distinct off-shell (Formula presented.) = 2 supergravities in three dimensions. They are also referred to as (Formula presented.) = (1, 1) and (Formula presented.) = (2, 0) supergravities, and they arise from the coupling of the Weyl multiplet to a compensating scalar or vector multiplet, respectively, followed by fixing of conformal symmetries. The (Formula presented.) = (p, q) terminology refers to the underlying anti-de Sitter superalgebras OSp(2, p) ⊕ OSp(2, q) with R-symmetry group SO(p) × SO(q). We construct off-shell invariants of these theories up to fourth order in derivatives. As an application of these results, we determine the special combinations of the (Formula presented.) = (1, 1) invariants that admit anti-de Sitter vacuum solution about which there is a ghost-free massive spin-2 multiplet of propagating modes. We also show that the (Formula presented.) =(2,0) invariants do not allow such possibility.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 125 |
Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
Volume | 2015 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Feb 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2015, The Author(s).
Funding
Funders | Funder number |
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National Science Foundation | PHY-1214344 |
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 1214344 |
Keywords
- Extended Supersymmetry
- Supergravity Models