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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Equivariant Localization for Higher Derivative Supergravity
Pietro Benetti Genolini1, Florian Gaar2, Jerome P Gauntlett3
1Université de Genève, Département de Physique Théorique, 24 quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211 Genève, Suisse.
Abstract:
Conformal supergravity provides an effective off-shell formalism to study higher derivative actions. We show that the D=4, N=2 theory admits equivariantly closed forms. These may be used to compute closed-form expressions for supersymmetric observables in a general class of supergravity theories with higher derivative couplings, without any need to solve equations of motion. We discuss applications to holography, presenting results for on-shell actions that are conjecturally valid to all orders in the perturbative 1/N expansion.
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