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Role of space-time foam in breaking supersymmetry via the Barbero-Immirzi parameter

John Ellis and Nick E. Mavromatos

  • Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Department of Physics, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK and Theory Division, Physics Department, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

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Phys. Rev. D 84, 085016 – Published 19 October, 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.085016

Abstract

We discuss how: (i) a dilaton/axion superfield can play the role of a Barbero-Immirzi field in four-dimensional conformal quantum supergravity theories, (ii) a fermionic component of such a dilaton/axion superfield may play the role of a Goldstino in the low-energy effective action obtained from a superstring theory with F-type global supersymmetry breaking, (iii) this global supersymmetry breaking is communicated to the gravitational sector via the supergravity coupling of the Goldstino, and (iv) such a scenario may be realized explicitly in a D-foam model with D-particle defects fluctuating stochastically.

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Phys. Rev. D 84, 085016– Published 19 October, 2011
  • Received 31 August 2011

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