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Given the success of the deconstruction program in obtaining ghost-free massive gravity from 5-D Einstein gravity, we propose a modification of the deconstruction procedure that incorporates supersymmetry at the linear level. We discuss the relevant limits of a conjectured interacting theory of a massive spin 2 supermultiplet, and determine the linear theory to be the \( \mathcal{N}=1 \) Zinoviev theory, a supersymmetric extension of Fierz-Pauli theory. We develop a family of 1-site deconstruction procedures for fermionic fields (yielding Dirac and Majorana mass terms). The deconstruction procedure appropriate for giving fermions a Dirac mass is found to preserve half of the supersymmetry of the 5-D theory. We explicitly check this by deconstructing 5-D \( \mathcal{N}=2 \) super-Maxwell theory down to 4-D \( \mathcal{N}=1 \) super-Proca theory, and deconstructing linear 5-D \( \mathcal{N}=2 \) supergravity down to 4-D \( \mathcal{N}=1 \) Zinoviev theory, and derive the full 4-D supersymmetry algebras and Stückelberg symmetries from the 5-D superalgebras and gauge symmetries, respectively. We conjecture that this procedure should admit a generalization to fully non-linear theories.
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Ondo, N.A., Tolley, A.J. Deconstructing supergravity: massive supermultiplets. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 82 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2018)082
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