Coupling supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories to supergravity

We extend the technique of Cremmer et al. to couple arbitrary chiral multiplets with supersymmetric Yang-Mills interactions to N = 1 supergravity. We present the general form of the lagrangian and the detailed form of the scalar potential is spelled out. In the case of N chiral multiplets, “minimally” coupled to supergravity, we derive, in the absence of gauge interactions, a model-independent mass formula Supertrace $\text{M}{}^2\text{= Σ}{}_{\mathrm{J}}\text{(?)}{}^{\mathrm{2J}}\text{(2J + 1)m}{}_{\mathrm{J}}{}^2\text{= 2(N ? 1)m}{}_{\mathrm{<mtext>3</mtext><mtext>2</mtext>}}{}^2$, where $\text{m}{}_{\mathrm{<mtext>3</mtext><mtext>2</mtext>}}$ is the gravitino mass. A concrete example of the super Higgs effect involving N chiral multiplets is exhibited.