Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1843975 | Nuclear Physics B | 2010 | 40 Pages |
Abstract
We expand the generic model involving chiral matter, super-Yang-Mills gauge fields, and supergravity to second order in the gravity and gauge prepotentials in a manifestly covariant and conformal way. Such a class of models includes conventional chiral matter coupled to supergravity via a conformal compensator. This is a first step toward calculating one-loop effects in supergravity in a way that does not require a perturbative expansion in the inverse Planck scale or a recourse to component level calculations to handle the coupling of the Kähler potential to the gravity sector. We also consider a more restrictive model involving a linear superfield in the role of the conformal compensator and investigate the similarities it has to the dual chiral model.
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Authors
Daniel Butter,