Non-linear realisations in global and local supersymmetry
arXiv:1901.02097
Abstract
The subject of this thesis is the construction and the study of four-dimensional effective theories with spontaneously broken and non-linearly realised global and local supersymmetry. In the first part, the global supersymmetric case is analysed. The discussion starts from the supersymmetry breaking sector, describing the goldstino and its interactions, in the case of minimal supersymmetry and it is then generalised to a generic number of spontaneously broken supersymmetry generators. A systematic procedure is given in order to construct effective theories with non-linearly realised supersymmetry and with any desired spectrum content. In the second part of the thesis, non-linear realisations are analysed in the case of local supersymmetry, namely supergravity. The coupling of the goldstino sector to gravity is presented first and the superhiggs mechanism on a generic background is discussed. Matter couplings are then constructed in some simple examples. A new class of models is introduced in which supersymmetry is spontaneously broken and non-linearly realised already on the gravity sector. As a consequence, it is possible to construct actions in which the cosmological constant is bounded to be positive, which can be motivated for studying inflation. Two applications of non-linear realisations in local supersymmetry are discussed in detail. In the first one it is shown how to implement Kähler invariance in a way that mimics the global supersymmetric case. In particular, the Kähler--Hodge restriction on the scalar manifold, which is typical of supergravity, is avoided. In the second application the role of non-linear realisations in the construction of de Sitter vacua is discussed. Attention is devoted to the relationship with known de Sitter uplift constructions and with a new, recently proposed D-term in supergravity.
arXiv comment152 pages. Ph.D. thesis based on: arXiv:1607.01277, arXiv:1611.01490, arXiv:1704.07387 & arXiv:1712.08601
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