ModMax meets Susy

doi:10.1007/JHEP10(2021)031

ModMax meets Susy

2021-10-05

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DOI：10.1007/JHEP10(2021)031

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We give a prescription for N = 1 supersymmetrization of any (four-dimensional) nonlinear electrodynamics theory with a Lagrangian density satisfying a convexity condition that we relate to semi-classical unitarity. We apply it to the one-parameter ModMax extension of Maxwell electrodynamics that preserves both electromagnetic duality and conformal invariance, and its Born-Infeld-like generalization, proving that duality invariance is preserved. We also establish superconformal invariance of the superModMax theory by showing that its coupling to supergravity is super-Weyl invariant. The higher-derivative photino-field interactions that appear in any supersymmetric nonlinear electrodynamics theory are removed by an invertible nonlinear superfield redefinition.

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Conformal and W Symmetry

Duality in Gauge Field Theories

Supersymmetry and Duality

Supersymmetry Breaking

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