2000/07/31 by Martin Cederwall, Ulf Gran, Mikkel Nielsen +2 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2000/10/041
published as JHEP 0010 (2000) 041 · 13 pages, plain tex. v2: minor changes, one ref. added
openalex publication_date 2000/10/24 · arxiv created 2000/11/07 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this paper, the low-energy effective dynamics of M-theory, eleven-dimensional supergravity, is taken off-shell in a manifestly supersymmetric formulation. We show that a previously proposed relaxation of the superspace torsion constraints does indeed accommodate a current supermultiplet which lifts the equations of motion corresponding to the ordinary second order derivative supergravity lagrangian. Whether the auxiliary fields obtained this way can be used to construct an off-shell lagrangian is not yet known. We comment on the relation and application of this completely general formalism to higher-derivative (R4) corrections. Some details of the calculation are saved for a later publication.