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Superstring Modifications of 4D-supergravity Actions

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Old and New Forces of Nature

Part of the book series: The Subnuclear Series ((SUS,volume 23))

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It is known that superstring theories yield to effective Lagrangians for the massless modes, which modify the Einstein action and ordinary particle couplings by adding infinitely many higher curvature terms and higher derivative interactions. Chern-Simons modification to the 4D-supergravity action, coupling of antisymmetric tensors, 4D--Wess-Zumino terms and other issues on higher derivative point-field locally supersymmetric Lagrangians are reviewed.

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Ferrara, S. (1988). Superstring Modifications of 4D-supergravity Actions. In: Zichichi, A. (eds) Old and New Forces of Nature. The Subnuclear Series, vol 23. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1309-0_3

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