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By coupling \( \mathcal{N}=8 \) superconformal matter to \( \mathcal{N}=8 \) superconformal Chern-Simons gravity in three dimensions we obtain theories with novel terms in the scalar potential leading to AdS 3 solutions and superconformal symmetry breaking. If we start from the theory derived by Bagger, Lambert and Gustavsson, our coupled theory either inherits the SO(4) gauge group or reduces it to SO(3). If the construction is instead based on a free matter theory we find that the gravitational topological gauging also requires the introduction of a Chern-Simons gauge sector resulting in a consistent theory for any SO(N ) gauge group.
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Gran, U., Greitz, J., Howe, P. et al. Topologically gauged superconformal Chern-Simons matter theories. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 46 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2012)046
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