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We present, for the first time, the complete off-shell $4D, {\cal N}=2$ superfield actions for any free massless integer spin ${\bf s} \geq 2$ fields, using the ${\cal N}=2$ harmonic superspace approach. The relevant gauge supermultiplet is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-27 Ioseph Buchbinder , Evgeny Ivanov , Nikita Zaigraev

A new class of N=2 locally supersymmetric higher-derivative invariants is constructed based on logarithms of conformal primary chiral superfields. They characteristically involve a coupling to R_{\mu\nu}^2 - 1/3*R^2, which equals the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Daniel Butter , Bernard de Wit , Sergei M. Kuzenko , Ivano Lodato

We elaborate on the structure of higher-spin $\mathcal{N}=2$ supercurrent multiplets in four dimensions. It is shown that associated with every conformal supercurrent $J_{\alpha(m) \dot{\alpha}(n)}$ (with $m,n$ non-negative integers) is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-24 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Emmanouil S. N. Raptakis

We review the superfield formulation of $\mathcal{N}=2$ higher-spin supergravity theory in harmonic superspace. The analysis of both the hypermultiplet higher-spin supersymmetries and conformal supersymmetries is performed. The analytic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-05 Ioseph Buchbinder , Evgeny Ivanov , Nikita Zaigraev

We extend our program, of coupling theories to scale in order to make their Weyl invariance manifest, to include interacting theories, fermions and supersymmetric theories. The results produce mass terms coinciding with the standard ones…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Abrar Shaukat , Andrew Waldron

We develop geometric superspace settings to construct arbitrary higher derivative couplings (including R^n terms) in three-dimensional supergravity theories with N=1,2,3 by realising them as conformal supergravity coupled to certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-08 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Joseph Novak , Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

We develop a general formalism of duality rotations for $\cal N$-extended superconformal gauge multiplets in conformally flat backgrounds as an extension of the approach given in arXiv:2107.02001. Additionally, we construct $\mathsf{U}(1)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-31 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Emmanouil S. N. Raptakis

We examine non-gravitational minimal supermultiplets which are based on the tensor gauge fields appearing as matter fields in exceptional generalised geometry. When possible, off-shell multiplets are given. The fields in the multiplets…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-01 Martin Cederwall

Off-shell higher spin N=2 supermultiplets in three spacetime dimensions (3D) are presented in this paper. We propose gauge prepotentials for higher spin superconformal gravity and construct the corresponding gauge-invariant field strengths,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-30 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Daniel X. Ogburn

Three years ago, we proposed free off-shell models for ${\mathcal N}=2$ superconformal higher-spin multiplets in arbitrary conformally flat backgrounds, constructed conserved conformal higher-spin supercurrents for a massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-11 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Emmanouil S. N. Raptakis

We construct manifestly $4D, \mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric and gauge invariant off-shell cubic couplings of matter hypermultiplets to the higher integer spin gauge $\mathcal{N}=2$ multiplets introduced in arXiv:2109.07639 [hep-th]. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-18 Ioseph Buchbinder , Evgeny Ivanov , Nikita Zaigraev

A brief review of the harmonic superspace approach to the construction of $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric higher spin theories is given. We define off-shell analytic harmonic gauge potentials of $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric higher-spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-13 Ioseph Buchbinder , Evgeny Ivanov , Nikita Zaigraev

We study 4-dimensional higher-derivative conformal higher spin (CHS) fields generalising Weyl graviton and conformal gravitino. They appear, in particular, as "induced" theories in the AdS/CFT context. We consider their partition function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 A. A. Tseytlin

In recent papers arXiv:2109.07639 [hep-th] and arXiv:2202.08196 [hep-th], we constructed free off-shell $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric higher spin gauge theories in harmonic superspace and their cubic couplings to hypermultiplet. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 Ioseph Buchbinder , Evgeny Ivanov , Nikita Zaigraev

Within the framework of six-dimensional ${\cal N}=(1,0)$ conformal supergravity, we introduce new off-shell multiplets ${\cal O}{}^{*}(n)$, where $n=3,4,\dots,$ and use them to construct higher-rank extensions of the linear multiplet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Joseph Novak , Stefan Theisen

We present $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal $\mathsf{U}(1)$ duality-invariant models for an Abelian vector multiplet coupled to conformal supergravity. In a Minkowski background, such a nonlinear theory is expected to describe (the planar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-03 Sergei M. Kuzenko

We review the general formalism of duality rotations for $\cal N$-extended (super)conformal gauge multiplets of arbitrary (super)spin in four dimensions, with ${\cal N} \geq 0$. Self-dual models for a vector field (${\cal N}=0$) and for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-05 Sergei M. Kuzenko

Off-shell actions for massless higher-spin $\mathcal{N}=1$ supermultiplets in five dimensions (5D) are constructed in harmonic superspace in terms of unconstrained prepotentials. Cubic couplings of these supermultiplets to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Evgeny I. Buchbinder , Sergei M. Kuzenko , Igor B. Samsonov

Six-dimensional (1,0) supersymmetric gauged Einstein-Maxwell supergravity is extended by the inclusion of a supersymmetric Riemann tensor squared invariant. Both the original model as well as the Riemann tensor squared invariant are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-04 Eric Bergshoeff , Frederik Coomans , Ergin Sezgin , Antoine Van Proeyen

We propose higher spin supercurrent multiplets for ${\cal N}=1$ supersymmetric field theories in four-dimensional anti-de Sitter space (AdS). Their explicit realisations are derived for various supersymmetric theories, including a model of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Evgeny I. Buchbinder , Jessica Hutomo , Sergei M. Kuzenko