Matter coupled Dirac-Born-Infeld action in 4-dimensional N=1 conformal supergravity

Abstract

We construct the Dirac-Born-Infeld action in the context of N=1 conformal supergravity and its possible extensions including matter couplings. We especially focus on the Volkov-Akulov constraint, which is important to avoid ghost modes from the higher derivative terms. In the case with matter couplings, we find the modified D-term potential.

9 pages, v2: section 5.1 added, v3: references added