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Supersymmetric Galilean Electrodynamics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-10-19 v2

Abstract

In 2+1 dimensions, we propose a renormalizable non-linear sigma model action which describes the N=2\mathcal{N}=2 supersymmetric generalization of Galilean Electrodynamics. We first start with the simplest model obtained by null reduction of the relativistic Abelian N=1\mathcal{N}=1 supersymmetric QED in 3+1 dimensions and study its renormalization properties directly in non-relativistic superspace. Despite the existence of a non-renormalization theorem induced by the causal structure of the non-relativistic dynamics, we find that the theory is non-renormalizable. Infinite dimensionless, supersymmetric and gauge-invariant terms, which combine into an analytic function, are generated at quantum level. Renormalizability is then restored by generalizing the theory to a non-linear sigma model where the usual minimal coupling between gauge and matter is complemented by infinitely many marginal couplings driven by a dimensionless gauge scalar and its fermionic superpartner. Superconformal invariance is preserved in correspondence of a non-trivial conformal manifold of fixed points where the theory is gauge-invariant and interacting.

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@article{arxiv.2207.06435,
  title  = {Supersymmetric Galilean Electrodynamics},
  author = {Stefano Baiguera and Lorenzo Cederle and Silvia Penati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.06435},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

38+18 pages, 12 figures; v2: reference added

R2 v1 2026-06-25T00:53:34.078Z