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Hauptverfasser: Chae, Ji-Seong, Jang, Hun, Lee, Junhyeok
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29990
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author Chae, Ji-Seong
Jang, Hun
Lee, Junhyeok
author_facet Chae, Ji-Seong
Jang, Hun
Lee, Junhyeok
contents We develop a perturbative, diagrammatic framework for constructing Nicolai maps and apply it to four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ Poincaré supergravity expanded around flat Minkowski space. It provides an alternative to the coupling-flow-operator construction, which faces several obstructions when extended to local supersymmetry. Expanding the bosonic effective action and the Nicolai map jointly in the gravitational coupling $κ$ and the loop-counting parameter $\hbar$, we derive the Nicolai-map defining conditions, i.e. the free-action and determinant-matching conditions, order by order. The diagrammatics enumerates all admissible local terms in the Nicolai-map ansatz from the effective-action diagrams and reduces the construction to a finite system of nonlinear polynomial equations. Carried through order $κ^{2}$, the resulting constraints are found to be independent of the detailed bosonic input and hierarchical, order-$κ^{2}$ consistency further restricting the order-$κ$ data. A consistent Nicolai-map construction for the Einstein--Hilbert graviton sector is found to require the Rarita--Schwinger gravitino already at this order: Einstein gravity admits a Nicolai map only through its $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric completion, Poincaré supergravity, supporting Nicolai's characterization of supersymmetry.
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spellingShingle Perturbative Nicolai-Map Diagrammatics: Application to Poincaré Supergravity
Chae, Ji-Seong
Jang, Hun
Lee, Junhyeok
High Energy Physics - Theory
We develop a perturbative, diagrammatic framework for constructing Nicolai maps and apply it to four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ Poincaré supergravity expanded around flat Minkowski space. It provides an alternative to the coupling-flow-operator construction, which faces several obstructions when extended to local supersymmetry. Expanding the bosonic effective action and the Nicolai map jointly in the gravitational coupling $κ$ and the loop-counting parameter $\hbar$, we derive the Nicolai-map defining conditions, i.e. the free-action and determinant-matching conditions, order by order. The diagrammatics enumerates all admissible local terms in the Nicolai-map ansatz from the effective-action diagrams and reduces the construction to a finite system of nonlinear polynomial equations. Carried through order $κ^{2}$, the resulting constraints are found to be independent of the detailed bosonic input and hierarchical, order-$κ^{2}$ consistency further restricting the order-$κ$ data. A consistent Nicolai-map construction for the Einstein--Hilbert graviton sector is found to require the Rarita--Schwinger gravitino already at this order: Einstein gravity admits a Nicolai map only through its $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric completion, Poincaré supergravity, supporting Nicolai's characterization of supersymmetry.
title Perturbative Nicolai-Map Diagrammatics: Application to Poincaré Supergravity
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29990