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An alternative way of introducing the supersymmetric cosmological term in a supergravity theory is presented. We show that the AdS-Lorentz superalgebra allows to construct a geometrical formulation of supergravity containing a generalized supersymmetric cosmological constant. The N = 1, D = 4 supergravity action is built only from the curvatures of the AdS-Lorentz superalgebra and corresponds to a MacDowell-Mansouri like action. The extension to a generalized AdS-Lorentz superalgebra is also analyzed.
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Concha, P.K., Rodríguez, E.K. & Salgado, P. Generalized supersymmetric cosmological term in N=1 supergravity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 9 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2015)009
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