Gauged N = 8 supergravity and its breaking from spontaneous compactification

✍ Scribed by B. Biran; F. Englert; B. de Wit; H. Nicolai

• Book ID: 113346994
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 417 KB
• Volume: 124
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0370-2693
• DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(83)91400-4

✦ Synopsis

Gauged N = 8 supergravity emerges from spontaneous compactification of eleven-dimensional supergravity on the ricmannian S 7. This is the only non-trivial compactification scheme preserving fidl supersymmetry. The four-dimensional theory admits a spontaneously broken solution describable as a compactification on the parellelized $7; supersymmetry is completely broken and the local SO(8) group is reduced to G2.