First-order higher curvature supergravities and effective theories of strings
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: First-order higher curvature supergravities and effective theories of strings
zbMATH Open document ID: 0621.53069
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4916(87)90057-1
published in: Annals of Physics
publication date: 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: A first-order formulation of higher curvature supergravities in the group manifold approach leads to non-trivial torsion equations. In second-order form the resulting Lagrangians exhibit a non-polynomial structure in the curvatures of the basic fields, as well as in the supersymmetry variations. The relevance of these results for the search of superstring compactification is pointed out. The Chapline-Manton Lagrangian is recovered in first-order form and the supersymmetric completion of Chern- Simons terms in five and ten dimensions is considered.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C80
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83E50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81T60
zbMATH DE Number: 4007200
zbMATH Keywords: higher curvature supergravities
zbMATH Keywords: Lagrangians
zbMATH Keywords: superstring compactification
zbMATH Keywords: supersymmetric completion
zbMATH Keywords: Chern-Simons terms
Wikidata QID: Q56973552
author: Sergio Ferrara
author: Pietro Fré
author: M. Porrati
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: 0003-4916(87)90057-1
OpenAlex ID: W2077990696
cites work: Superstring theory
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4007200