Eur. Phys. J. C (2004) 36: 245-249
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2004-01818-1

theoretical physics

Gauge fixing of Chern-Simons N-extended supergravity

¹ Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
² Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica (CEFET), Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil
³ Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), ES 29000-001, Vitória, Brazil

^* e-mail: wander@cbpf.br

Abstract

We treat N-extended supergravity in 2 + 1 space-time dimensions as a Yang-Mills gauge field with Chern-Simons action associated to the N-extended Poincaré supergroup. We fix the gauge of this theory within the Batalin-Vilkovisky scheme.