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Chern-Simons Supergravities with Off-Shell Local Superalgebras
A new family of supergravity theories in odd dimensions is presented. The
Lagrangian densities are Chern-Simons forms for the connection of a
supersymmetric extension of the anti-de Sitter algebra. The superalgebras are
the supersymmetric extensions of the AdS algebra for each dimension, thus
completing the analysis of van Holten and Van Proeyen, which was valid for N=1
and for D=2,3,4,mod 8. The Chern-Simons form of the Lagrangian ensures
invariance under the gauge supergroup by construction and, in particular, under
local supersymmetry. Thus, unlike standard supergravity, the local
supersymmetry algebra closes off-shell and without requiring auxiliary fields.
The Lagrangian is explicitly given for D=5, 7 and 11. In all cases the
dynamical field content includes the vielbein, the spin connection, N
gravitini, and some extra bosonic ``matter'' fields which vary from one
dimension to another. The superalgebras fall into three families: osp(m|N) for
D=2,3,4, mod 8, osp(N|m) for D=6,7,8, mod 8, and su(m-2,2|N) for D=5 mod 4,
with m=2^{[D/2]}. The possible connection between the D=11 case and M-Theory is
also discussed.Comment: 13pages, RevTeX, no figures, two column
Lie-algebra expansions, Chern-Simons theories and the Einstein-Hilbert lagrangian
Starting from gravity as a Chern-Simons action for the AdS algebra in five
dimensions, it is possible to deform the theory through an expansion of the Lie
algebra that leads to a system consisting of the Einstein-Hilbert action plus
nonminimally coupled matter. The deformed system is gauge invariant under the
Poincare group enlarged by an Abelian ideal. Although the resulting action
naively looks like General Relativity plus corrections due to matter sources,
it is shown that the nonminimal couplings produce a radical departure from GR.
Indeed, the dynamics is not continuously connected to the one obtained from
Einstein-Hilbert action. In a matter-free configuration and in the torsionless
sector, the field equations are too strong a restriction on the geometry as the
metric must satisfy both the Einstein and pure Gauss-Bonnet equations. In
particular, the five-dimensional Schwarzschild geometry fails to be a solution;
however, configurations corresponding to a brane-world with positive
cosmological constant on the worldsheet are admissible when one of the matter
fields is switched on. These results can be extended to higher odd dimensions.Comment: 11 page
A new species of Liolaemus related to L. nigroviridis from the Andean highlands of Central Chile (Iguania, Liolaemidae)
Indexación: Web of Science; Scopus.The Liolaemus nigroviridis group is a clade of highland lizards endemic to Chile. These species are distributed from northern to central Chile, and currently there are no cases of sympatric distribution. This study describes a new species, Liolaemus uniformis sp. n., from this group, and provides a detailed morphological characterization and mitochondrial phylogeny using cytochrome-b. Liolaemus uniformis was found in sympatry with L. nigroviridis but noticeably differed in size, scalation, and markedly in the color pattern, without sexual dichromatism. This new species has probably been confused with L. monticola and L. bellii, both of which do not belong to the nigroviridis group. The taxonomic issues of this group that remain uncertain are also discussed.https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=601
Poincare invariant gravity with local supersymmetry as a gauge theory for the M-algebra
Here we consider a gravitational action having local Poincare invariance
which is given by the dimensional continuation of the Euler density in ten
dimensions. It is shown that the local supersymmetric extension of this action
requires the algebra to be the maximal extension of the N=1 super-Poincare
algebra. The resulting action is shown to describe a gauge theory for the
M-algebra, and is not the eleven-dimensional supergravity theory of
Cremmer-Julia-Scherk. The theory admits a class of vacuum solutions of the form
S^{10-d} x Y_{d+1}, where Y_{d+1} is a warped product of R with a d-dimensional
spacetime. It is shown that a nontrivial propagator for the graviton exists
only for d=4 and positive cosmological constant. Perturbations of the metric
around this solution reproduce linearized General Relativity around
four-dimensional de Sitter spacetime.Comment: Final version as published in Physics Letters B. Title changed in
journal, some corrections, new references and comments adde
Extension of the Poincar\'e group with half-integer spin generators: hypergravity and beyond
An extension of the Poincar\'e group with half-integer spin generators is
explicitly constructed. We start discussing the case of three spacetime
dimensions, and as an application, it is shown that hypergravity can be
formulated so as to incorporate this structure as its local gauge symmetry.
Since the algebra admits a nontrivial Casimir operator, the theory can be
described in terms of gauge fields associated to the extension of the
Poincar\'e group with a Chern-Simons action. The algebra is also shown to admit
an infinite-dimensional non-linear extension, that in the case of fermionic
spin- generators, corresponds to a subset of a contraction of two copies
of WB. Finally, we show how the Poincar\'e group can be extended with
half-integer spin generators for dimensions.Comment: 12 pages, no figures. Matches published versio
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