Supergravity on a 3-torus : quantum linearization instabilities with a supergroup

It is well known that linearized gravity in spacetimes with compact Cauchy surfaces and continuous symmetries suffers from linearization instabilities: solutions to classical linearized gravity in such a spacetime must satisfy so-called linearization stability conditions (or constraints) for them to extend to solutions in the full non-linear theory. Moncrief investigated implications of these conditions in linearized quantum gravity in such background spacetimes and found that the quantum linearization stability constraints lead to the requirement that all physical states must be invariant under the symmetries generated by these constraints. He studied these constraints for linearized quantum gravity in lat spacetime with the spatial sections of toroidal topology in detail. Subsequently, his result was reproduced by the method of group-averaging. In this paper the quantum linearization stability conditions are studied forN = 1 simple supergravity in this spacetime. In addition to the linearization stability conditions corresponding to the spacetime symmetries, i.e. spacetime translations, there are also fermionic linearization stability conditions corresponding to the background supersymmetry.We construct all states satisfying these quantum linearization stability conditions, including the fermionic ones, and show that they are obtained by group-averaging over the supergroup of the global supersymmetry of this theory.

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