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August 11, 2025Journal of High Energy Physics0 citationsOpen Access

A note on partially massless supergravity

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NBNicolas BoulangerGLGuillaume LhostSTSylvain Thomée

Key Points

  • The study classifies non-Abelian couplings of a partially massless spin-2 field and massless spin-3/2 fields in AdS 4.
  • It re-derives a non-Abelian vertex, highlighting a similarity to N=2 supergravity, while detailing the non-Abelian gauge algebra structure.
  • Findings reveal that the inclusion of graviton and vector gauge field is key to addressing higher-order obstructions.
  • These results suggest the only consistent theory coupling partially massless spin-2 and massless gravitini is N=1 conformal supergravity.

Abstract

A bstract We classify all the possible parity-invariant, non-Abelian couplings involving a partially massless spin-2 field and a pair of massless spin-3/2 fields around anti-de Sitter spacetime AdS 4. We re-derive a non-Abelian vertex recently found in 48 by Yu. M. Zinoviev following a different approach, and make explicit the structure of the non-Abelian gauge algebra, very similar to N N = 2 supergravity around AdS 4. We show that this vertex is obstructed at higher order in deformation, and that the graviton plus a vector gauge field are required to eliminate most, if not all, of the obstructions. The resulting gauge algebra produces all the structures of the super algebra su (2, 2 | 1), suggesting that the only consistent theory that couples a partially massless spin-2 field with massless gravitini is N N = 1 conformal supergravity expanded around AdS 4.

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Boulanger et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68a35eeb0a429f7973327de5https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07(2025)185
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