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N=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories with Nonpolynomial Interactions

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Contents<br />

Introduction 1<br />

1 Gauging the Central Charge 3<br />

1.1 The <strong>N=2</strong> Supersymmetry Algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3<br />

1.2 The Linear Multiplet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br />

1.3 The Hypermultiplet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />

2 The Vector-Tensor Multiplet 17<br />

2.1 Introducing the Multiplet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />

2.2 Consistent Deformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />

2.3 The Ansatz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27<br />

2.3.1 Invariant Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />

2.3.2 Solutions for Z = i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />

2.3.3 Generalization to Z(x) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />

3 The Linear Case 37<br />

3.1 Consistent Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37<br />

3.2 Transformations and Bianchi Identities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39<br />

3.3 The Lagrangian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44<br />

3.4 Chern-Simons Couplings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49<br />

3.5 Henneaux-Knaepen Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53<br />

4 The Nonlinear Case 57<br />

4.1 Consistent Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57<br />

4.2 Transformations and Bianchi Identities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59<br />

4.3 The Lagrangian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64<br />

Conclusions and Outlook 69<br />

A Conventions 71<br />

A.1 Vectors and Spinors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71<br />

A.2 σ-Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72<br />

A.3 Multiplet Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74<br />

References 75

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