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Superconformal N=3 SYM Low-Energy Effective Action

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-03 v2

Abstract

We construct a manifestly N=3 supersymmetric low-energy effective action of N=3 super Yang-Mills theory. The effective action is written in the N=3 harmonic superspace and respects the full N=3 superconformal symmetry. On mass shell this action is responsible for the four-derivative terms in the N=4 SYM effective action, such as F^4/X^4 and its supersymmetric completions, while off shell it involves also higher-derivative terms. For constant Maxwell and scalar fields its bosonic part coincides, up to the F^6/X^8 order, with the bosonic part of the D3 brane action in the AdS_5 x S^5 background. We also argue that in the sector of scalar fields it involves the correctly normalized Wess-Zumino term with the implicit SU(3) symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.1111.4145,
  title  = {Superconformal N=3 SYM Low-Energy Effective Action},
  author = {I. L. Buchbinder and E. A. Ivanov and I. B. Samsonov and B. M. Zupnik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.4145},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

1+29 pages; v2: minor corrections, JHEP style

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