Type IIB supergravity

In supersymmetry, type IIB supergravity is the unique supergravity in ten dimensions with two supercharges of the same chirality. It was first constructed in 1983 by John Schwarz and independently by Paul Howe and Peter West at the level of its equations of motion.[1][2] While it does not admit a fully covariant action due to the presence of a self-dual field, it can be described by an action if the self-duality condition is imposed by hand on the resulting equations of motion. The other types of supergravity in ten dimensions are type IIA supergravity, which has two supercharges of opposing chirality, and type I supergravity, which has a single supercharge. The theory plays an important role in modern physics since it is the low-energy limit of type IIB string theory.

  1. ^ Schwarz, J.H. (1983). "Covariant field equations of chiral N = 2 D = 10 supergravity". Nuclear Physics B. 226 (2): 269–288. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(83)90192-X.
  2. ^ Howe, P.S.; West, P.C. (1984). "The complete N =2, d = 10 supergravity". Nuclear Physics B. 238 (1): 181–220. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(84)90472-3.