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arxiv: 1511.08220 · v4 · pith:AWLCRWVWnew · submitted 2015-11-25 · ✦ hep-th · gr-qc

Covariant Action for Type IIB Supergravity

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Taking clues from the recent construction of the covariant action for type II and heterotic string field theories, we construct a manifestly Lorentz covariant action for type IIB supergravity, and discuss its gauge fixing maintaining manifest Lorentz invariance. The action contains a (non-gravitating) free 4-form field besides the usual fields of type IIB supergravity. This free field, being completely decoupled from the interacting sector, has no physical consequence.

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