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An off-shell superspace reformulation of D=4, N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-02-14 v1

Abstract

D=4, N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory has an off-shell superspace formulation in terms of pure spinor superfields, which is directly inherited from the D=10 theory. That superspace, in particular the choice of pure spinor variables, is less suitable for dealing with fields that are inherently 4-dimensional, such as the superfields based on the scalars, which are gauge-covariant, and traces of powers of scalars, which are gauge-invariant. We give a reformulation of D=4, N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory in N=4 superspace, using inherently 4-dimensional pure spinors. All local degrees of freedom reside in a superfield based on the physical scalars. The formalism should be suited for calculations of correlators of traces of scalar superfields.

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@article{arxiv.1707.00554,
  title  = {An off-shell superspace reformulation of D=4, N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory},
  author = {Martin Cederwall},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.00554},
  year   = {2018}
}

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13 pp