Anti-self-dual gravity and supergravity from a pure connection formulation

Abstract

We introduce a complex pure connection action with constraints which is diffeomorphism and gauge invariant. Taking as an internal group $SU(2)$, we obtain, from the equations of motion, anti-self-dual Einstein spaces together with the zero torsion condition thanks to Bianchi identity. By applying the same procedure, we take as internal symmetry the super group $OSp(1|2)$ and by means of the Bianchi identity and integrability conditions, the equations of motion are those that come from anti-self-dual supergravity $N=1$ with cosmological constant sector.