Superweyl cocycle in $d=4$ and superconformal-invariant operator
The super-Weyl cocycle (effective action for supertrace anomaly) and corresponding invariant operator in nonminimal formulation of $d=4$,$N=1$ supergravity are obtained.
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The super-Weyl cocycle (effective action for supertrace anomaly) and corresponding invariant operator in nonminimal formulation of $d=4$,$N=1$ supergravity are obtained.
We present a hierarchy of gauged Grassmanian models in $4p$ dimensions, where the gauge field takes its values in the $2^{2p- 1}\times 2^{2p-1}$ chiral representation of SO(4p). The actions of all these models are absolutely minimised by a hierarchy of self-duality equations, all of which reduce to a single pair of coupled ordinary differential equations when subjected to $4p$ dimensional spherical symmetry.
The general structure of trace anomaly, suggested recently by Deser and Shwimmer, is argued to be the consequence of the Wess-Zumino consistency condition. The response of partition function on a finite Weyl transformation, which is connected with the cocycles of the Weyl group in $d=2k$ dimensions is considered, and explicit answers for $d=4,6$ are obtained. Particularly, it is shown, that addition of the special combination of the local counterterms leads to the simple form of that cocycle, quadratic over Weyl field $σ$, i.e. the form, similar to the two-dimensional Lioville action. This form also establishes the connection of the cocycles with conformal-invariant operators of order $d$ and zero weight. Beside that, the general rule for transformation of that cocycles into the cocycles of diffeomorphisms group is presented.
The effective action for 2d-gravity with manifest area-preserving invariance is obtained in the flat and in the general gravitational background. The cocyclic properties of the last action are proved, and generalizations on higher dimensions are discussed.
The geometric action on a certain orbit of the group of the area-preserving diffeomorphisms is considered, and it is shown, that it coincides with a special reduction of the three-dimensional Chern-Simons theory, under which group and space coordinates are identified.