Harmonic superpotentials and symmetries in gauge theories with eight supercharges

Feb, 1999
21 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 554 (1999) 365-390,
  • Nucl.Phys.B 644 (2002) 405-406 (erratum)
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Report number:
  • JINR-E2-99-24

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Abstract:
Models of interactions of D-dimensional hypermultiplets and supersymmetric gauge multiplets with \cN=8 supercharges (D6)(D{\leq} 6) can be formulated in the framework of harmonic superspaces. The effective Coulomb low-energy action for D=5 includes the free and Chern-Simons terms. We consider also the non-Abelian superfield D=5 Chern-Simons action. The biharmonic D=3,\cN=8 superspace is introduced for a description of l and r supermultiplets and the mirror symmetry. The D=2,(4,4) gauge theory and hypermultiplet interactions are considered in the triharmonic superspace. Constraints for D{=}1,\cN{=}8 supermultiplets are solved with the help of the SU(2)×Spin(5)SU(2){\times}Spin(5) harmonics. Effective gauge actions in the full D{\leq}3,\cN{=}8 superspaces contain constrained (harmonic) superpotentials satisfying the (6-D) Laplace equations for the gauge group U(1) or corresponding (6-D)p-dimensional equations for the gauge groups [U(1)]p[U(1)]^p. Generalized harmonic representations of superpotentials connect equivalent superfield structures of these theories in the full and analytic superspaces. The harmonic approach simplifies the proofs of non-renormalization theorems.
Note:
  • Formulas of the non-Abelian Chern-Simons 5D action in Sect. 2 are corrected and the note with a new reference added
  • 11.30.Pb
  • ll.15.Tk
  • Harmonic superspace
  • Grassmann analyticity
  • Prepotential
  • Superpotential
  • superspace: harmonic
  • gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
  • supercharge
  • Chern-Simons term