Biconformal supergravity

Authors

James Thomas Wheeler, Utah State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Quantum Theory and Symmetries

Publisher

World Scientific

Publication Date

2004

Abstract

Biconformal supergravity models provide a new gauging of the superconformal group relevant to the Maldacena conjecture. Using the group quotient method to biconformally gauge SU(2,2|N), we generate a 16-dim superspace. We write the most general even- and odd-parity actions linear in the curvatures, the bosonic sector of which is known to descend to general relativity on a 4-dim manifold.

Recommended Citation

Wheeler, J. T., Biconformal supergravity, in Quantum Theory and Symmetries, Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium, edited by P. C. Argyres, T. J. Hodges, F. Mansouri, J. J. Scanio, P. Suranyi, and L. C. R. Wijewardhana. (World Scientific, New Jersey, London 2004).