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在四维$\cal N$ = 1超引力中求圈量子引力Barbero-Immirzi参数和场

Seeking the Loop Quantum Gravity Barbero-Immirzi Parameter and Field in 4D, $\cal N$ = 1 Supergravity

S. James Gates, Sergei V. Ketov, Nicolas Yunes

摘要:

我们将圈量子引力Barbero-Immirzi参数和场嵌入描述4D,$\cal N$ = 1超引力的作用量中,从而嵌入超弦/M理论的低能有效作用量中。我们使用(弯曲)超空间中超引力的完全规范协变描述。用标量场的真空期望值代替引力常量,在局域超对称中,标量场被提升为复的、协变的手征标量超场。这个超场的虚部耦合到一个超对称霍尔斯特项。霍尔斯特项也是圈量子引力作用的起点。这表明圈量子引力与超对称弦论之间可能存在某种联系,其中前者的Barbero-Immirzi参数和场在后者中扮演超对称轴子的角色。在圈量子引力中加入物质费米子可能需要通过聂-杨拓扑不变量来扩展霍尔斯特作用量,而在纯的无物质超引力中,它们的超对称扩展是相同的。我们证明了,当Barbero-Immirzi参数提升为四维超引力背景下的场时,它等价于添加一个动力学复手征(介子-轴子)超场,该超场具有非平凡的动力学项(或Kähler势),耦合到超引力。

英文摘要:

We embed the Loop Quantum Gravity Barbero-Immirzi parameter and field within an action describing 4D, $\cal N$ = 1 supergravity and thus within a Low Energy Effective Action of Superstring/M-Theory. We use the fully gauge-covariant description of supergravity in (curved) superspace. The gravitational constant is replaced with the vacuum expectation value of a scalar field, which in local supersymmetry is promoted to a complex, covariantly chiral scalar superfield. The imaginary part of this superfield couples to a supersymmetric Holst term. The Holst term also serves as a starting point in the Loop Quantum Gravity action. This suggest the possibility of a relation between Loop Quantum Gravity and supersymmetric string theory, where the Barbero-Immirzi parameter and field of the former play the role of the supersymmetric axion in the latter. Adding matter fermions in Loop Quantum Gravity may require the extension of the Holst action through the Nieh-Yan topological invariant, while in pure, matter-free supergravity their supersymmetric extensions are the same. We show that, when the Barbero-Immirzi parameter is promoted to a field in the context of 4D supergravity, it is equivalent to adding a dynamical complex chiral (dilaton-axion) superfield with a non-trivial kinetic term (or Kähler potential), coupled to supergravity.

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