# KEK Theory workshop 2018

17-20 December 2018
Kenkyu-Honkan bldg. 1F
Japan timezone
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# Contribution

Kenkyu-Honkan bldg. 1F - Kobayashi Hall

# Generalized supergravity and Weyl invariance

## Speakers

• Prof. Kentaroh YOSHIDA

## Description

Recently, there has been a fundamental and significant development in the Green-Schwarz (GS) formulation of superstring theory. In this formulation, the kappa-symmetry plays a central role to ensure the consistency of the theory. In 2016, Tseytlin and Wulff showed that the kappa-symmetry constraints of the GS superstring defined on an arbitrary background lead to a generalized'' supergravity, which contains an additional (non-dynamical) vector field, rather than the standard supergravity. This result indicates that we might have overlooked a potentially important ingredient in the low-energy effective theory of string theory for long time, and may open up new directions including phenomenology and cosmology. In this talk, I will introduce what is the generalized supergravity and then discuss Weyl invariance of string theories on generalized supergravity backgrounds.