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Progress toward a theory of supergravity

Daniel Z. Freedman and P. van Nieuwenhuizen

S. Ferrara

  • Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794

  • Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France

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Phys. Rev. D 13, 3214 – Published 15 June, 1976

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.13.3214

Abstract

As a new approach to supergravity, an action containing only vierbein and Rarita-Schwinger fields (Vaμ and ψμ) is presented together with supersymmetry transformations for these fields. The action is explicitly shown to be invariant except for a ψ5 term in its variation. This term may also vanish, depending on a complicated calculation. (Added note: This term has now been shown to vanish by a computer calculation, so that the action presented here does possess full local supersymmetry.)

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Phys. Rev. D 13, 3214– Published 15 June, 1976
  • Received 29 March 1976

© 1976 American Physical Society

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