Pure de Sitter supergravity

Using superconformal methods we derive an explicit de Sitter supergravity action invariant under spontaneously broken local N = 1 supersymmetry. The supergravity multiplet interacts with a nilpotent Goldstino multiplet. We present a complete locally supersymmetric action including the graviton and t...

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Main Authors: Bergshoeff, Eric A. (Author), Freedman, Daniel Z. (Contributor), Kallosh, Renata (Author), Van Proeyen, Antoine (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2015-10-28T13:11:09Z.
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520 |a Using superconformal methods we derive an explicit de Sitter supergravity action invariant under spontaneously broken local N = 1 supersymmetry. The supergravity multiplet interacts with a nilpotent Goldstino multiplet. We present a complete locally supersymmetric action including the graviton and the fermionic fields, gravitino and Goldstino, no scalars. In the global limit when the supergravity multiplet decouples, our action reproduces the Volkov-Akulov theory. In the unitary gauge where the Goldstino vanishes we recover pure supergravity with the positive cosmological constant. The classical equations of motion, with all fermions vanishing, have a maximally symmetric solution: de Sitter space. 
520 |a National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant PHY-0967299) 
520 |a United States. Dept. of Energy (Cooperative Research Agreement DE-FG02-05ER41360) 
520 |a Stanford University. Institute for Theoretical Physics 
520 |a National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant PHY-1316699) 
520 |a Templeton Foundation (Grant) 
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655 7 |a Article 
773 |t Physical Review D