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a r X i v : h e p - t h / 0 4 0 3 1 6 2 v 2 2 9 M a r 2 0 0 4 Multisupergravity from latticized extra dimension Shin’ichi Nojiri?1, Sergei D. Odintsov??2 ? Department of Applied Physics, National Defence Academy, Hashirimizu Yokosuka 239-8686, JAPAN ? Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), Edifici Nexus, Gran Capita? 2-4, 08034 Barcelona, SPAIN ? Institucio? Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avanc?ats (ICREA), Barcelona, SPAIN Abstract The construction of the linearized four-dimensional multisupergravity from five- dimensional linearized supergravity with discretized fifth dimension is presented. The one-loop vacuum energy is evaluated when (anti)periodic boundary conditions are cho- sen for (bosons) fermions, respectively or vice-versa. It is proposed that the relation between discretized M-theory and strings may be found in the same fashion. PACS numbers: 04.50.+h, 04.65.+e, 11.25.-w, 98.80.-k 1Electronic mail: nojiri@nda.ac.jp, snojiri@yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp 2Electronic mail: odintsov@ieec.fcr.es Also at TSPU, Tomsk, Russia 1 Introduction It is known that the earlier attempts to construct multigravity theories [1] were not quite successful. The problem is that for massive tensor theories the consistency issue is not yet completely understood. Such theories normally contain several patologies like van Dam- Veltman-Zakharov discontinuity [2] or the appearence of ghosts beoynd quadratic order. The truncation of KK theory to finite number of massive spin-2 fields is not consistent too [3]. Recently, the interesting approach to multigravity theories was initiated by brane-world picture. Such approach suggests a new way to formulate multigravity where it is possible to check how the consistency of brane-world gravity is kept at discretized level. In ref.[4], related with the deconstruction of extra dimension, a model where several four-dimensional gravities are connected by the link variables has been proposed. By choosing a proper gauge condition, it has bee