The low-energy N=4 SYM effective action in diverse harmonic superspaces
Abstract
We review various superspace approaches to the description of the low-energy effective action in N=4 super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory. We consider the four-derivative part of the low-energy effective action in the Coulomb branch. The typical components of this effective action are the gauge field F^4/X^4 and the scalar field Wess-Zumino terms. We construct N=4 supersymmetric completions of these terms in the framework of different harmonic superspaces supporting N=2,3,4 supersymmetries. These approaches are complementary to each other in the sense that they make manifest different subgroups of the total SU(4) R-symmetry group. We show that the effective action acquires an extremely simple form in those superspaces which manifest the non-anomalous maximal subgroups of SU(4). The common characteristic feature of our construction is that we restore the superfield effective actions exclusively by employing the N=4 supersymmetry and/or superconformal PSU(2,2|4) symmetry.
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@article{arxiv.1603.02768,
title = {The low-energy N=4 SYM effective action in diverse harmonic superspaces},
author = {I. L. Buchbinder and E. A. Ivanov and I. B. Samsonov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.02768},
year = {2017}
}
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102 pages, v2: references added