Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2002-04-18
Class.Quant.Grav. 20 (2003) 5407-5424
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
33 pages. Reference added
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/20/24/013
New gaugings of four dimensional N=8 supergravity are constructed, including one which has a Minkowski space vacuum that preserves N=2 supersymmetry and in which the gauge group is broken to $SU(3)xU(1)^2$. Previous gaugings used the form of the ungauged action which is invariant under a rigid $SL(8,R)$ symmetry and promoted a 28-dimensional subgroup ($SO(8),SO(p,8-p)$ or the non-semi-simple contraction $CSO(p,q,8-p-q)$) to a local gauge group. Here, a dual form of the ungauged action is used which is invariant under $SU^*(8)$ instead of $SL(8,R)$ and new theories are obtained by gauging 28-dimensional subgroups of $SU^*(8)$. The gauge groups are non-semi-simple and are different real forms of the $CSO(2p,8-2p)$ groups, denoted $CSO^*(2p,8-2p)$, and the new theories have a rigid SU(2) symmetry. The five dimensional gauged N=8 supergravities are dimensionally reduced to D=4. The $D=5,SO(p,6-p)$ gauge theories reduce, after a duality transformation, to the $D=4,CSO(p,6-p,2)$ gauging while the $SO^*(6)$ gauge theory reduces to the $D=4, CSO^*(6,2)$ gauge theory. The new theories are related to the old ones via an analytic continuation. The non-semi-simple gaugings can be dualised to forms with different gauge groups.
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