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We explore the one-loop electroweak radiative corrections in the context of the traditional minimal SU(5) and the string-inspired SU(5) × U(1) supergravity models by calculating explicitly vacuum-polarization and vertexcorrection contributions to the ǫ1 and ǫb parameters. We also include in this analysis the constraint from b → sγ whose inclusive branching ratio B(b → sγ) has been actually meas...

We construct supergravity theories in twelve and thirteen dimensions with the respective signatures (10, 2) and (11, 2) with some technical details. Starting with N = 1 supergravity in 10+2 dimensions coupled to Green-Schwarz superstring, we give N = 2 chiral supergravity in 10+2 dimensions with its couplings to super (2 + 2)-brane. We also build an N = 1 supergravity in 11+2 dimensions, couple...

We consider configurations of D7-branes and whole and fractional D3-branes with N = 2 supersymmetry. On the supergravity side these have a warp factor, three-form flux and a nonconstant dilaton. We discuss general IIB solutions of this type and then obtain the specific solutions for the D7/D3 system. On the gauge side the D7-branes add matter in the fundamental representation of the D3-brane ga...

We start by a concise yet thorough revision of four-dimensional super-space supergravity. We present curved superspace geometry, for arbitrary N , including torsion, curvature and Bianchi identities. We motivate the choice of torsion constraints. We then consider the particular cases of N = 1, 2. In both cases we show how Poincaré supergravity can be obtained from conformal supergravity. We see...

It is known that, in string sigma-model metric, the 'extreme' fivebrane solution of D=10 supergravity interpolates between D=10 Minkowski spacetime and a supersym-metric S 3 compactification to a linear dilaton vacuum. We show here that, in fivebrane sigma-model metric, the extreme string solution of D=10 supergravity interpolates between Minkowski spacetime and a hitherto unknown supersymmetri...

In a classical conformal invariant supersymmetric gauge theory, the chiral R-symmetry current jμ, the supersymmetry current sμ and the energymomentum tensor θμν constitute a supercurrent multiplet. There are two different superconformal anoamly multiplets in four-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories, one originating from the supersymmetric gauge dynamics and the consequent nonvanishing β-f...

We consider the conditions necessary for obtaining perturbative maximal supergravity in d dimensions as a decoupling limit of type II superstring theory compactified on a (10 − d)-torus. For dimensions d = 2 and d = 3 it is possible to define a limit in which the only finite-mass states are the 256 massless states of maximal supergravity. However, in dimensions d ≥ 4 there are infinite towers o...

We construct a Chern-Simons type gauged N = 8 supergravity in three spacetime dimensions with gauge group SO(4) × T∞ over the infinite dimensional coset space SO(8,∞)/ (SO(8)× SO(∞)), where T∞ is an infinite dimensional translation subgroup of SO(8,∞). This theory describes the effective interactions of the (infinitely many) supermultiplets contained in the two spin-1 Kaluza-Klein towers arisin...

We construct a new class of supersymmetric surface operators in N = 4 SYM and find the corresponding dual supergravity solutions. We show that the insertion of the surface operator – which is given by a WZW model supported on the surface – appears by integrating out the localized degrees of freedom along the surface which arise microscopically from a D3/D7 brane intersection. Consistency requir...