On the Super Higgs Effect in Extended Supergravity
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We consider the reduction of supersymmetry in N -extended four dimensional supergravity via the super Higgs mechanism in theories without cosmological constant. We provide an analysis largely based on the properties of long and short multiplets of Poincaré supersymmetry. Examples of the super Higgs phenomenon are realized in spontaneously broken N = 8 supergravity through the Scherk-Schwarz mechanism and in superstring compactification in presence of brane fluxes. In many models the massive vectors count the difference in number of the translation isometries of the scalar σ-model geometries in the broken and unbroken phase.
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Super Higgs Effect in Extended Supergravity
We consider the reduction of supersymmetry in N -extended four dimensional supergravity via the super Higgs mechanism. We provide an analysis largely based on the properties of long and short multiplets of Poincaré supersymmetry. Examples of the super Higgs phenomenon are realized in spontaneously broken N = 8 supergravity through the Scherk-Schwarz mechanism and in superstring compactification...
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