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dS2 supergravity

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Dionysios Anninos
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Pietro Benetti Genolini *
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Beatrix Mühlmann
DOI:10.1007/JHEP11(2023)145delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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We construct two-dimensional supergravity theories endowed with a positive cosmological constant, that admit de Sitter vacua. We consider the cases of N = 1 as well as N = 2 supersymmetry, and couple the supergravity to a superconformal field theory with the same amount of supersymmetry. Upon fixing a supersymmetric extension of the Weyl gauge, the theories are captured, at the quantum level, by supersymmetric extensions of timelike Liouville theory with N = 1 and N = 2 supersymmetry respectively. The theories exhibit good ultraviolet properties and are amenable to a variety of techniques such as systematic loop expansions and, in the N = 2 case, supersymmetric localization. Our constructions offer a novel path toward a precise treatment of the Euclidean gravitational path integral for de Sitter, and in turn, the Gibbons-Hawking entropy of the de Sitter horizon. We argue that the supersymmetric localization method applied to the N = 2 theory must receive contributions from boundary terms in configuration space. We also discuss how these theories overcome several obstructions that appear upon combining de Sitter space with supersymmetry.
Keywords:
2D Gravity
de Sitter space
Supergravity Models

Journal

Journal of High Energy Physics cover
Journal of High Energy Physics
IF:
5.5
Papers:
3.9W
Citations:
13.7W

Organization

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university of london
Scholars:
21.5W
Papers: 19.7W
Citations: 305