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The Superspace Geometry of Gravitational Chern–Simons Forms and Their Couplings to Linear Multiplets: A Self-Contained Presentation

✍ Scribed by Georges Girardi; Richard Grimm


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
419 KB
Volume
272
Category
Article
ISSN
0003-4916

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✦ Synopsis


The superspace geometry of Chern Simons forms is shown to be closely related to that of the 3-form multiplet. This observation allows us to simplify considerably the geometric structure of supersymmetric Chern Simons forms and their coupling to linear multiplets. The analysis is carried through in U K (1) superspace, relevant at the same time for supergravitymatter couplings and for chirally extended supergravity. As a dynamical application we discuss the supersymmetric action containing Chern Simons forms of the Gauss Bonnet type coupled to the linear multiplet.