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arxiv: 0711.2272 · v2 · submitted 2007-11-14 · ✦ hep-th · hep-ph

Tensor calculus for supergravity on a manifold with boundary

classification ✦ hep-th hep-ph
keywords boundarysupergravitycalculussupersymmetrictensoractionsbulkextension
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Using the simple setting of 3D N=1 supergravity, we show how the tensor calculus of supergravity can be extended to manifolds with boundary. We present an extension of the standard F-density formula which yields supersymmetric bulk-plus-boundary actions. To construct additional separately supersymmetric boundary actions, we decompose bulk supergravity and bulk matter multiplets into co-dimension one submultiplets. As an illustration we obtain the supersymmetric extension of the York-Gibbons-Hawking extrinsic curvature boundary term. We emphasize that our construction does not require any boundary conditions on off-shell fields. This gives a significant improvement over the existing orbifold supergravity tensor calculus.

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