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De Sitter superalgebras and supergravity

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A general analysis of all possible super-extensions of anti-de Sitter and de Sitter algebrasO(3, 2) andO(4, 1) is presented. It is shown that actions with de Sitter local supersymmetry exist, but contain vector-ghosts.

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  1. M. F. Sohnius

    Present address: Imperial College, SW7 2BZ, London, England

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  1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 11794, Stony Brook, Long Island, NY, USA

    K. Pilch & P. van Nieuwenhuizen

  2. Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, CB3 9EW, Cambridge, England

    M. F. Sohnius

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Communicated by S. W. Hawking

Supported in part by the NSF under grant PHY 81-09110 A-01

On leave from the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland

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Pilch, K., van Nieuwenhuizen, P. & Sohnius, M.F. De Sitter superalgebras and supergravity. Commun.Math. Phys. 98, 105–117 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01211046

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