Flat supergravity potentials with non-zero potential energy due to D-terms

McDonald, John and Vayonakis, C. E. (1985) Flat supergravity potentials with non-zero potential energy due to D-terms. Physics Letters B, 150 (5). pp. 357-359. ISSN 0370-2693

Abstract

We show that SU(1,1) supergravity models, with naturally flat potentials V, may possess a non-zero V when supplemented with a U(1) D-term. Such a non-zero potential is of interest in the construction of no-scale GUTs, being perhaps a natural feature of such models.