1995/10/11 by S. Ferrara, L. Girardello, Massimo Porrati +1 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Higgs boson #Manifold (fluid mechanics) #Mathematical physics #Multiplet #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Spin (aerodynamics) #Supergravity #Superstring theory #Supersymmetry #Supersymmetry breaking #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(95)01378-4
published as Phys.Lett. B366 (1996) 155-159 · 7 pages, plain Latex
arxiv created 1995/10/11 · openalex publication_date 1996/01/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
It is shown that the minimal Higgs sector of a generic N = 2 supergravity theory with unbroken N = 1 supersymmetry must contain a Higgs hypermultiplet and a vector multiplet. When the multiplets parametrize the quaternionic manifold SO(4,1)SO(4), and the special Kähler manifold SU(1,1)U(1), respectively, a vanishing vacuum energy with a sliding massive spin 32 multiplet is obtained. Potential applications to N = 2 low energy effective actions of superstrings are briefly discussed.