Off-shell component count of minimal supergravity

ID: off-shell-component-count-of-minimal-supergravity

A four-dimensional Majorana spinor gravitino has real components, minus four local supersymmetry gauge functions, leaving twelve before using any Euler-Lagrange field equation. A vierbein has sixteen real components, minus six local Lorentz transformation and four diffeomorphism gauge functions, leaving six. Equivalently, a symmetric metric tensor has . The propagating graviton and massless gravitino each have two states on shell. Six bosonic auxiliary field components complete an off-shell supergravity multiplet.

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