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We present off-shell \( \mathcal{N}=2 \) supergravity actions, which exhibit spontaneously broken local supersymmetry and allow for de Sitter vacua for certain values of the parameters. They are obtained by coupling the standard \( \mathcal{N}=2 \) supergravity-matter systems to the Goldstino superfields introduced in arXiv:1105.3001 and arXiv:1607.01277 in the rigid supersymmetric case. These \( \mathcal{N}=2 \) Goldstino superfields include nilpotent chiral and linear supermultiplets. We also describe a new reducible \( \mathcal{N}=1 \) Goldstino supermultiplet.
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Kuzenko, S.M., McArthur, I.N. & Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli, G. Goldstino superfields in \( \mathcal{N}=2 \) supergravity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 61 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2017)061
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