RT Journal Article T1 The equivalence theorem and the production of gravitinos after inflation A1 López Maroto, Antonio A1 Peláez Sagredo, José Ramón AB We study the high-energy equivalence between helicity ±1/2 gravitinos and Goldstinos in order to calculate the production of gravitinos in time-dependent scalar and gravitational backgrounds. We derive this equivalence for equations of motion, paying attention to some subtleties, mainly due to external sources, that are not present in the standard proofs. We also propose the Landau gauge as a simplifying alternative to the usual gauge choices, both for practical calculations and in the equivalence theorem proof. PB American Physical Society SN 0556-2821 YR 2000 FD 2000-06-26 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59332 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59332 LA eng NO © 2000 The American Physical Society. A.L.M. wishes to acknowledge very useful discussions with A. Linde, R. Kallosh and A. Mazumdar. J.R.P. thanks the CERN Theory Division, where part of this work was carried out, for their hospitality. This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia under project CICYT AEN97-1693. A.L.M. also acknowledges the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia for financial support. NO Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia NO CICYT DS Docta Complutense RD 8 abr 2025