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We present a uniform treatment of rigid supersymmetric field theories in a curved spacetime $\mathcal{M}$, focusing on four-dimensional theories with four supercharges. Our discussion is significantly simpler than earlier treatments,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-11 Guido Festuccia , Nathan Seiberg

This is an introductory review to localization techniques in supersymmetric two-dimensional gauge theories. In particular we describe how to construct Lagrangians of N=(2,2) theories on curved spaces, and how to compute their partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Francesco Benini , Bruno Le Floch

A general formalism to construct and improve supercurrents and source or anomaly superfields in two-derivative N=1 supersymmetric theories is presented. It includes arbitrary gauge and chiral superfields and a linear superfield coupled to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-11 Jean-Pierre Derendinger

We analyze the superfield constraints of the D=4, N=3 SYM-theory using light-cone gauge conditions. The SU(3)/U(1)xU(1) harmonic variables are interpreted as auxiliary spectral parameters, and the transform to the harmonic-superspace…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 B. M. Zupnik

We present the gravity dual to a class of three-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories on a biaxially squashed three-sphere, with a non-trivial background gauge field. This is described by a 1/2 BPS Euclidean solution of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Dario Martelli , James Sparks

Three dimensional supersymmetric field theories have large moduli spaces of circular Wilson loops preserving a fixed set of supercharges. We simplify previous constructions of such Wilson loops and amend and clarify their classification.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-16 Nadav Drukker

A superfield version on superspace $(x^\mu,\theta^a)$ is proposed for the $Sp(2)$-- covariant Lagrangian quantization of general gauge theories. The BRST- and antiBRST- transformations are realized on superfields as supertranslations in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 P. M. Lavrov

We discuss the possible applications supersymmetric theories might find in the field of elementary particle physics. The supersymmetric generalization of the $SU(3)\times SU(2)\times U(1)$ standard model is discussed in detail. Special…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans Peter Nilles

We study the superstring theory with an Abelian worldsheet gauge field. The components of the gauge field appear as a space and a time coordinates. We call them as "fictitious coordinates". The worldsheet supersymmetry and the Poincar\'e…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-09 Davoud Kamani

We consider $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on four manifolds admitting an isometry. Generalized Killing spinor equations are derived from the consistency of supersymmetry algebrae and solved in the case of four manifolds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-28 Aditya Bawane , Giulio Bonelli , Massimiliano Ronzani , Alessandro Tanzini

A superfield algorithm for master actions of a class of gauge field theories including topological ones in arbitrary dimensions is presented generalizing a previous treatment in two dimensions. General forms for master actions in superspace…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Igor Batalin , Robert Marnelius

In this paper, we construct a lattice formulation for two-dimensional N=(2,2) supersymmetric gauge theory with matter fields in the fundamental representation. We first construct it by the orbifolding procedure from Yang-Mills matrix theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 So Matsuura

Super Feynman rules for any superspin are given for massive $ \mathcal{N}=1 $ supersymmetric theories, including momentum superspace on-shell legs. This is done by extending, from space to superspace, Weinberg's perturbative approach to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-27 Enrique Jiménez

A ten-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theory is written in terms of N=1, D=4 superfields. The theory is dimensionally reduced over six-dimensional coset spaces. We find that the resulting four-dimensional theory is either a softly broken…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Manousselis , G. Zoupanos

We use the Konishi anomaly equations to construct the exact effective superpotential of the glueball superfields in various N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories. We use the superpotentials to study in detail the structure of the spaces of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Andreas Brandhuber , Harald Ita , Harald Nieder , Yaron Oz , Christian Romelsberger

We obtain the supergravity dual of N=1 supersymmetric gauge theory in 2+1 dimensions with a large number of unquenched massless flavors. The geometries found are obtained by solving the equations of motion of supergravity coupled to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Felipe Canoura , Paolo Merlatti , Alfonso V. Ramallo

We construct exceptional field theory for the duality group SL(3)$\times$SL(2). The theory is defined on a space with 8 `external' coordinates and 6 `internal' coordinates in the $(3,2)$ fundamental representation, leading to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Olaf Hohm , Yi-Nan Wang

A supersymmetric theory with several scalar superfields generically has several domain wall type classical configurations which interpolate between various supersymmetric vacua of the scalar fields. Depending on the couplings, some of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 M. B. Voloshin

The maximal supergravity theory in three dimensions, which has local SO(16) and rigid $E_8$ symmetries, is discussed in a superspace setting starting from an off-shell superconformal structure. The on-shell theory is obtained by imposing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-21 J. Greitz , P. S. Howe

We provide the geometric actions for most general N=1 supergravity in two spacetime dimensions. Our construction implies an extension to arbitrary N. This provides a supersymmetrization of any generalized dilaton gravity theory or of any…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 M. Ertl , W. Kummer , T. Strobl