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A concise introduction to the formal and physical properties of globally and locally supersymmetric systems. Includes, in particular, the Wess–Zumino model, the linearized graviton–gravitino system, the exact N=1 supergravity model in D=4 dimensions (with an explicit derivation of its field equations and a check of its supersymmetry properties). Not easily available in the textbook literature: a detailed discussion of the coupling to gravity of the Rarita–Schwinger field (with an explicit proof of the consistency of the supersymetric coupling).
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A gauge field is not immune, obviously, to the gravitational interaction: it feels gravity through all the other forms of minimal coupling present in the action (see the discussion of the electromagnetic potential in Chap. 4).
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Gasperini, M. (2013). Supersymmetry and Supergravity. In: Theory of Gravitational Interactions. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2691-9_14
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