Wednesday, May 23, 2012

1205.4711 (Gianguido Dall'Agata et al.)

Quantum corrections to broken N = 8 supergravity    [PDF]

Gianguido Dall'Agata, Fabio Zwirner
We show that the one-loop effective potential of spontaneously broken N=8 supergravity is calculable and finite at all classical four-dimensional Minkowski vacua without tachyons in the spectrum. The reason is that the supertraces of the quadratic and quartic mass matrices vanish along the classically flat directions: Str M^2 = Str M^4 =0. We also show that Str M^6 = 0 but Str M^8 > 0 in a broad class of vacua with broken supersymmetry on a flat background, which includes all those explicitly identified so far. We find analytical and numerical evidence that the corresponding one-loop effective potential is negative-definite.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4711

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