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Extended Supersymmetry and BPS solutions in baby Skyrme models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-15 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We continue the investigation of supersymmetric extensions of baby Skyrme models in d=2+1 dimensions. In a first step, we show that the CP(1) form of the baby Skyrme model allows for the same N=1 SUSY extension as its O(3) formulation. Then we construct the N=1 SUSY extension of the gauged baby Skyrme model, i.e., the baby Skyrme model coupled to Maxwell electrodynamics. In a next step, we investigate the issue of N=2 SUSY extensions of baby Skyrme models. We find that all gauged and ungauged submodels of the baby Skyrme model which support BPS soliton solutions allow for an N=2 extension such that the BPS solutions are one-half BPS states (i.e., annihilated by one-half of the SUSY charges). In the course of our investigation, we also derive the general BPS equations for completely general N=2 supersymmetric field theories of (both gauged and ungauged) chiral superfields, and apply them to the gauged nonlinear sigma model as a further, concrete example.

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@article{arxiv.1304.0774,
  title  = {Extended Supersymmetry and BPS solutions in baby Skyrme models},
  author = {C. Adam and J. M. Queiruga and J. Sanchez-Guillen and A. Wereszczynski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.0774},
  year   = {2015}
}

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32 pages, Latex file