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N=2 Supergravity Counterterms, Off and On Shell

We study N=2 supergravity deformed by a genuine supersymmetric completion of the $\lambda R^4$ term, using the underlying off shell N=2 superconformal framework. The gauge-fixed superconformal model has unbroken local supersymmetry of N=2 supergravity with higher derivative deformation. Elimination...

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Autores principales: Chemissany, W., Ferrara, S., Kallosh, R., Shahbazi, C.S.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2012)089
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1474392
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Sumario:We study N=2 supergravity deformed by a genuine supersymmetric completion of the $\lambda R^4$ term, using the underlying off shell N=2 superconformal framework. The gauge-fixed superconformal model has unbroken local supersymmetry of N=2 supergravity with higher derivative deformation. Elimination of auxiliary fields leads to the deformation of the supersymmetry rules as well as to the deformation of the action, which becomes a Born-Infeld with higher derivative type action. We find that the gravitino supersymmetry deformation starts from $\lambda \, \pa^4 {\cal F}^3$ and has higher graviphoton couplings. In the action there are terms $\lambda^2 \pa^8 {\cal F}^{6}$ and higher, in addition to original on shell counterterm deformation. These deformations are absent in the on shell superspace and in the candidate on shell counterterms of N=4,~8 supergravities, truncated down to N=2. We conclude therefore that the undeformed on shell superspace candidate counterterms break the N=2 part of local supersymmetry.