N=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories with Nonpolynomial Interactions

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Acknowledgments I would like to express my gratitude to my advisor Prof. Dr. Norbert Dragon for his support and for giving me so much freedom yet offering guidance when needed. Furthermore, I am greatly indebted to Dr. Sergei Kuzenko and Dr. Friedemann Brandt, with whom I had the pleasure of collaborating during the last two years. Many thanks also to Prof. Dr. Olaf Lechtenfeld for all his efforts concerning the Graduiertenkolleg. Finally, thanks to Jens Reinbach for putting up with me occupying the computer in our office over four months.
Contents Introduction 1 1 Gauging the Central Charge 3 1.1 The N=2 Supersymmetry Algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 The Linear Multiplet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.3 The Hypermultiplet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2 The Vector-Tensor Multiplet 17 2.1 Introducing the Multiplet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.2 Consistent Deformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 2.3 The Ansatz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 2.3.1 Invariant Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 2.3.2 Solutions for Z = i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 2.3.3 Generalization to Z(x) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 3 The Linear Case 37 3.1 Consistent Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 3.2 Transformations and Bianchi Identities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 3.3 The Lagrangian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 3.4 Chern-Simons Couplings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 3.5 Henneaux-Knaepen Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 4 The Nonlinear Case 57 4.1 Consistent Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 4.2 Transformations and Bianchi Identities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 4.3 The Lagrangian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Conclusions and Outlook 69 A Conventions 71 A.1 Vectors and Spinors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 A.2 σ-Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 A.3 Multiplet Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 References 75
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