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arXiv:hep-th/9511223 (hep-th)
[Submitted on 30 Nov 1995 (v1), last revised 29 Dec 1996 (this version, v2)]

Title:Four-Dimensional Higher-Derivative Supergravity and Spontaneous Supersymmetry Breaking

Authors:Ahmed Hindawi, Burt A. Ovrut, Daniel Waldram
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Abstract: We construct two classes of higher-derivative supergravity theories generalizing Einstein supergravity. We explore their dynamical content as well as their vacuum structure. The first class is found to be equivalent to Einstein supergravity coupled to a single chiral superfield. It has a unique stable vacuum solution except in a special case, when it becomes identical to a simple no-scale theory. The second class is found to be equivalent to Einstein supergravity coupled to two chiral superfields and has a richer vacuum structure. It is demonstrated that theories of the second class can possess a stable vacuum with vanishing cosmological constant that spontaneously breaks supersymmetry. We present an explicit example of this phenomenon and compare the result with the Polonyi model.
Comments: 26 pages, LaTeX2e and AMS-LaTeX 1.2, 1 eps figure
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
Report number: UPR-685T
Cite as: arXiv:hep-th/9511223
  (or arXiv:hep-th/9511223v2 for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/9511223
Journal reference: Nucl.Phys. B476 (1996) 175-199
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213%2896%2900281-7

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From: Ahmed Hindawi [view email]
[v1] Thu, 30 Nov 1995 19:13:55 UTC (1 KB) (withdrawn)
[v2] Sun, 29 Dec 1996 00:17:52 UTC (30 KB)
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