Abstract
We construct gauged N = 8 supergravity theories in five dimensions. Instead of the twenty-seven vector fields of the ungauged theory, the gauged theories contain fifteen vector fields and twelve second-rank antisymmetric tensor fields satisfying self-dual field equations. The fifteen vector fields can be used to gauge any of the fifteen-dimensional semisimple subgroups of SL(6,R), specially SO(p, 6-p) for p = 0, 1, 2, 3. The gauged theories also have a physical global SU(1,1) symmetry which survives from the E6(6) symmetry of the ungauged theory. This SU(1,1) for the SO(6) gauging is presumably related to that of the chiral N = 2 theory in ten dimensions. In our formalism we maintain a composite local USp(8) symmetry analogous to SU(8) in four dimensions.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 268-274 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Physics Letters B |
Volume | 154 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2 1985 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics