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Bi-harmonic superspace for N=4 d=4 super Yang-Mills

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-28 v2

Abstract

We develop N=4 d=4 bi-harmonic superspace and use it to derive a novel form for the low-energy effective action in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. We solve the N=4 supergauge constraints in this superspace in terms of analytic superfields. Using these superfields, we construct a simple functional that respects N=4 supersymmetry and scale invariance. In components, it reproduces all on-shell terms in the four-derivative part of the N=4 SYM effective action; in particular, the F^4/X^4 and Wess-Zumino terms. The latter comes out in a novel SO(3) x SO(3)-invariant form.

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@article{arxiv.1106.0611,
  title  = {Bi-harmonic superspace for N=4 d=4 super Yang-Mills},
  author = {Dmitry V. Belyaev and Igor B. Samsonov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.0611},
  year   = {2015}
}

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1+19 pages; minor corrections, references added