Published October 15, 1977
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Journal article
Hamiltonian formulation of supergravity
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02154
Description
The action of supergravity, including mass and cosmological terms, is cast into Hamiltonian form in terms of the graviton and fermion degrees of freedom, and the constraints corresponding to the coordinate and supersymmetry invariances are exhibited. Absence of contact terms in first-order form is an immediate consequence of the latter. Source interactions due to lowest-order exchange of a supergraviton are given in the massive and massless cases. The gravitational zero-mass discontinuity persists in the fermion sector. Invariances of the spin-3/2 field under chiral and dual transformations are analyzed
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Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review D
- Journal Volume
- 16
- Journal Issue
- 8
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 2448-2455
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 9387024
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CHIRAL SYMMETRY; COSMOLOGY; EXCHANGE INTERACTIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; GRAVITATION; HAMILTONIANS; HELICITY; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RARITA-SCHWINGER THEORY; SPACE-TIME; SPIN; SPINORS; SUPERGRAVITY
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; INTERACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUANTUM OPERATORS; SYMMETRY
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