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Modified N=2 supersymmetry and Fayet-Iliopoulos terms

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-07-19 v4

Abstract

We study peculiarities of realization of N=2 supersymmetry in N=2 abelian gauge theory with two sorts of FI terms, electric and magnetic ones, within manifestly supersymmetric formulations via the Mezincescu and harmonic-analytic prepotentials. We obtain a `magnetic', duality- transformed superfield form of the N=2 Maxwell effective holomorphic action with standard electric FIFI term and demonstrate that in such a system off-shell N=2 supersymmetry is inevitably realized in an unusual Goldstone mode corresponding to the {\it partial} spontaneous breaking down to N=1. On shell, the standard total breaking occurs. In a system with the two sorts of FI terms, off-shell N=2 supersymmetry is realized in the partial breaking mode both in the electric and magnetic representations. This regime is retained on shell due to the Antoniadis- Partouche-Taylor mechanism. We show that the off-shell algebra of N=2 supersymmetry in the partial breaking realization is modified on gauge-variant objects like potentials and prepotentials. The closure of spinor charges involves some special gauge transformations before any gauge-fixing.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9710236,
  title  = {Modified N=2 supersymmetry and Fayet-Iliopoulos terms},
  author = {E. A. Ivanov and B. M. Zupnik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9710236},
  year   = {2011}
}

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Latex file, 21 pages, version published in the journal Yader. Fizika