arxiv: 1012.3748 · v3 · pith:475SDGCPnew · submitted 2010-12-16 · ✦ hep-th · astro-ph.CO

Supersymmetric P(X,phi) and the Ghost Condensate

Justin Khoury , Jean-Luc Lehners , Burt Ovrut This is my paper

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keywords supersymmetriccondensateconstructghostsupersymmetryactionactionsallows

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We show how to construct supersymmetric actions for higher-derivative scalar field theories of the form P(X,phi), within the context of d=4, N=1 supersymmetry. This construction is of general use, and is applied to write supersymmetric versions of the Dirac-Born-Infeld action. Our principal application of this formalism is to construct the supersymmetric extension of the ghost condensate. This allows us to study the interplay between supersymmetry, time-dependent backgrounds and violations of the null energy condition.

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