Self-dual supergravities
Abstract
The N-extended supersymmetric self-dual Poincaré supergravity equations provide a natural local description of supermanifolds possessing hyperkähler structure. These equations admit an economical formulation in chiral superspace. A reformulation in harmonic superspace encodes self-dual supervielbeins and superconnections in a graded skew-symmetric supermatrix superfield prepotential satisfying generalised Cauchy-Riemann conditions. A recipe is presented for extracting explicit self-dual supervielbeins and superconnections from such "analytic" prepotentials. We demonstrate the method by explicitly decoding a simple example of superfield prepotential, analogous to that corresponding to the Taub-NUT solution. The superspace we thus construct is an interesting N = 2 supersymmetric deformation of flat space, having flat "body" and constant curvature "soul".
- Publication:
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Nuclear Physics B
- Pub Date:
- February 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0550-3213(95)00139-J
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/9501061
- Bibcode:
- 1995NuPhB.444..381D
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 14 pages, latex file