Massive N=2 supergravity in three dimensions Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2015, The Author(s). 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.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS

altmetric score

  • 2.1

author list (cited authors)

  • Alkac, G., Basanisi, L., Bergshoeff, E. A., Ozkan, M., & Sezgin, E.

citation count

  • 17

complete list of authors

  • Alkac, Gokhan||Basanisi, Luca||Bergshoeff, Eric A||Ozkan, Mehmet||Sezgin, Ergin

publication date

  • February 2015