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Phys. Rev. Lett. 37, 1669–1671 (1976)

Consistent Supergravity with Complex Spin-3/2 Gauge Fields

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S. Ferrara* and P. van Nieuwenhuizen
Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794

Received 6 October 1976; published in the issue dated 20 December 1976

We construct a new theory of supergravity which is invariant under complex local supersymmetry transformations. This theory is obtained by coupling the massless spin-(3/2,1) multiplet of ordinary global supersymmetry to the spin-(2,3/2) gauge multiplet of previous supergravity.

© 1976 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.37.1669
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.37.1669
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*Supported by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. On leave of absence from Frascati National Laboratories, Frascati (Rome), Italy.

Supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-76-15328.