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Covariant quantisation of tensor multiplet models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-06-25 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism is applied to quantise the N=1{\cal N}=1 supersymmetric generalisation of the Freedman-Townsend (FT) model, which was proposed by Lindstr\"om and Ro\v{c}ek in 1983 in Minkowski superspace and is lifted to a supergravity background in this paper. This super FT theory describes a non-Abelian tensor multiplet and is known to be classically equivalent to a supersymmetric nonlinear sigma model. Using path integral considerations, we demonstrate that this equivalence holds at the quantum level in the sense that the quantum supercurrents in the two theories coincide. A modified Faddeev-Popov procedure is employed to quantise models for the N=2{\cal N}=2 tensor multiplet in harmonic superspace. The obtained results agree with those derived by applying the Batalin-Vilkovisky scheme within the harmonic superspace setting.

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@article{arxiv.2406.01176,
  title  = {Covariant quantisation of tensor multiplet models},
  author = {Sergei M. Kuzenko and Emmanouil S. N. Raptakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.01176},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

33 pages; v2: comments, references, and an appendix added

R2 v1 2026-06-28T16:50:52.219Z