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$\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal gravitino in harmonic superspace

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-09-03 v2

Abstract

We present the harmonic superspace formulation of N=2\mathcal{N}=2 gravitino multiplet, the simplest N=2\mathcal{N}=2 half-integer spin gauge supermultiplet. It is shown that, quite similar to other N=2\mathcal{N}=2 gauge multiplets, the gravitino supermultiplet is described by unconstrained analytic prepotentials h++αh^{++\alpha} and h+++h^{+++} which contain a conformal gravitino in the Wess-Zumino gauge. The analytic prepotentials naturally come out from the study of N=2\mathcal{N}=2 supercurrents associated with hidden symmetries of N=2\mathcal{N}=2 vector-hypermultiplet system. We construct the covariant N=2\mathcal{N}=2 superfield strengths and the invariant N=2\mathcal{N}=2 superfield actions and sketch their component contents. We observe that, at cost of introducing new auxiliary coordinates Ψα\Psi^\alpha and ω+\omega^+, the gravitino analytic prepotentials acquire a nice geometric interpretation as extra veilbeins of the covariant harmonic derivative D++\mathfrak{D}^{++}. We speculate on a possible origin of the additional coordinates, including their relationship with N=2\mathcal{N}=2 supertwistors.

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@article{arxiv.2412.14822,
  title  = {$\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal gravitino in harmonic superspace},
  author = {Evgeny Ivanov and Nikita Zaigraev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14822},
  year   = {2025}
}

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0 + 14 pages, typos corrected, some claryfying comments added

R2 v1 2026-06-28T20:42:11.595Z