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Phys. Rev. D 16, 2448–2455 (1977)

Hamiltonian formulation of supergravity

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S. Deser, J. H. Kay*, and K. S. Stelle
Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02154

Received 29 April 1977; published in the issue dated 15 October 1977

The action of supergravity, including mass and cosmological terms, is cast into Hamiltonian form in terms of the graviton and fermion degrees of freedom, and the constraints corresponding to the coordinate and supersymmetry invariances are exhibited. Absence of contact terms in first-order form is an immediate consequence of the latter. Source interactions due to lowest-order exchange of a supergraviton are given in the massive and massless cases. The gravitational zero-mass discontinuity persists in the fermion sector. Invariances of the spin-3/2 field under chiral and dual transformations are analyzed.

© 1977 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.16.2448
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10.1103/PhysRevD.16.2448
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*Work supported in part by a National Science Foundation Fellowship.