Noether-Wald and Komar charges in supergravity, fermions, and Killing supervectors in superspace

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Main Authors: Bandos, Igor, Meessen, Patrick, Ortín, Tomás
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author Bandos, Igor
Meessen, Patrick
Ortín, Tomás
author_facet Bandos, Igor
Meessen, Patrick
Ortín, Tomás
contents The supersymmetry properties of Killing vectors and spinors in supergravity theory can be clarified by relating them to Killing supervectors in the supergravity superspace. In the superspace approach it is manifest that supersymmetry 'mixes' a Killing vector with its fermionic spinor 'superpartner' and the Killing equations with the generalization of the Killing spinor equations. The latter reduces to the standard Killing spinor equation, albeit with a fermionic spinor, when the fermionic fields are set to zero. Using these supersymmetry transformations in the spacetime component approach, we construct a Noether-Wald charge of ${\cal N}=1$, $D=4$ supergravity with fermionic contributions which is diff-, Lorentz- and supersymmetry-invariant (up to a total derivative). The Killing supervector formalism for the maximal $D=11$ supergravity and some related issues are also discussed.
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spellingShingle Noether-Wald and Komar charges in supergravity, fermions, and Killing supervectors in superspace
Bandos, Igor
Meessen, Patrick
Ortín, Tomás
High Energy Physics - Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
The supersymmetry properties of Killing vectors and spinors in supergravity theory can be clarified by relating them to Killing supervectors in the supergravity superspace. In the superspace approach it is manifest that supersymmetry 'mixes' a Killing vector with its fermionic spinor 'superpartner' and the Killing equations with the generalization of the Killing spinor equations. The latter reduces to the standard Killing spinor equation, albeit with a fermionic spinor, when the fermionic fields are set to zero. Using these supersymmetry transformations in the spacetime component approach, we construct a Noether-Wald charge of ${\cal N}=1$, $D=4$ supergravity with fermionic contributions which is diff-, Lorentz- and supersymmetry-invariant (up to a total derivative). The Killing supervector formalism for the maximal $D=11$ supergravity and some related issues are also discussed.
title Noether-Wald and Komar charges in supergravity, fermions, and Killing supervectors in superspace
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.01020