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ModMax meets Susy

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-03-08 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We give a prescription for N=1 supersymmetrization of any (four-dimensional) nonlinear electrodynamics theory with a Lagrangian density satisfying a convexity condition that we relate to semi-classical unitarity. We apply it to the one-parameter ModMax extension of Maxwell electrodynamics that preserves both electromagnetic duality and conformal invariance, and its Born-Infeld-like generalization, proving that duality invariance is preserved. We also establish superconformal invariance of the superModMax theory by showing that its coupling to supergravity is super-Weyl invariant. The higher-derivative photino-field interactions that appear in any supersymmetric nonlinear electrodynamics theory are removed by an invertible nonlinear superfield redefinition.

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@article{arxiv.2106.07547,
  title  = {ModMax meets Susy},
  author = {Igor Bandos and Kurt Lechner and Dmitri Sorokin and Paul K. Townsend},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.07547},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

36 pp. v3 includes further minor corrections and clarifications

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