TY - JOUR
T1 - Stability of gauged d = 7 supergravity and the definition of masslessness in (adS)7
AU - Mezincescu, L.
AU - Townsend, P. K.
AU - van Nieuwenhuizen, P.
PY - 1984/8/16
Y1 - 1984/8/16
N2 - We analyze the two parameter scalar potential of the gauged d = 7 simple (N = 2) supergravity theory. The potential has a local minimum and a local maximum. The latter provides a supersymmetric anti-deSitter background which we show to be stable with respect to arbitrarily large fluctuations of the gravitational and scalar fields. The "apparent mass terms" agree with those obtained by a Kaluza-Klein analysis of the N = 4, d = 7 theory.
AB - We analyze the two parameter scalar potential of the gauged d = 7 simple (N = 2) supergravity theory. The potential has a local minimum and a local maximum. The latter provides a supersymmetric anti-deSitter background which we show to be stable with respect to arbitrarily large fluctuations of the gravitational and scalar fields. The "apparent mass terms" agree with those obtained by a Kaluza-Klein analysis of the N = 4, d = 7 theory.
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U2 - 10.1016/0370-2693(84)91487-4
DO - 10.1016/0370-2693(84)91487-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33744767884
VL - 143
SP - 384
EP - 388
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
SN - 0370-2693
IS - 4-6
ER -