Nonlinear Self-Duality and Supersymmetry
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-25 v1
Abstract
We review self-duality of nonlinear electrodynamics and its extension to several Abelian gauge fields coupled to scalars. We then describe self-duality in supersymmetric models, both N = 1 and N = 2. The self-duality equations, which have to be satisfied by the action of any self-dual system, are found and solutions are discussed. One important example is the Born-Infeld action. We explain why the N = 2 supersymmetric actions proposed so far are not the correct world-volume actions for D3 branes in d = 6.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0007231,
title = {Nonlinear Self-Duality and Supersymmetry},
author = {Sergei M. Kuzenko and Stefan Theisen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0007231},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
44 pages, latex, no figures