Exotic supergravities and the Swampland
Abstract In six dimensions, there is an exotic N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = (4, 0) supermultiplet that contains only fields of spin ≤ 2, but no graviton, and that on a circle reduces to 5D N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 supergravity. It has been proposed that, if suitable interactions exist, the (4, 0) theory mig...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of High Energy Physics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2024)049 |
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| Summary: | Abstract In six dimensions, there is an exotic N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = (4, 0) supermultiplet that contains only fields of spin ≤ 2, but no graviton, and that on a circle reduces to 5D N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 supergravity. It has been proposed that, if suitable interactions exist, the (4, 0) theory might provide a consistent alternative UV completion for N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 5D supergravity, realizing a supersymmetric version of asymptotic safety. In this note we argue that any Lorentz-invariant (4, 0) theory (interacting or not) carries an exact global symmetry when compactified on S 1, and is therefore incompatible with the Swampland no global symmetries conjecture. Another example of exotic supergravity, the 6D (3, 1) theory, evades our simple criterion. We study the general case and find that the only exotic spin-2 field that reduces to Einsteinian gravity and, in the absence of supersymmetry, potentially has no global symmetries when compactified on a high-dimensional torus is that which appears in the (3, 1) multiplet. All other possibilities either yield several gravitons or have global symmetries. |
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| ISSN: | 1029-8479 |