Spontaneous Breaking of N=2 Global Supersymmetry

H. Partouche; I. Antoniadis; T.R. Taylor

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Spontaneous Breaking of N=2 Global Supersymmetry

I. Antoniadis, H. Partouche, T.R. Taylor

High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 3 Dec 1995

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The authors' main claim In a generic case, N=2 supersymmetry is broken down spontaneously to N=1.

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We study spontaneous supersymmetry breaking in N=2 globally supersymmetric theories describing a system of abelian vector multiplets. We find that the most general form of the action admits, in addition to the usual Fayet-Iliopoulos term, a magnetic Fayet-Iliopoulos term for the auxiliary components of dual vector multiplets. In a generic case, N=2 supersymmetry is broken down spontaneously to N=1. In some cases however, the scalar potential can drive the theory towards a N=2 supersymmetric ground state where massless dyons condense in the vacuum.

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s3	In some cases however, the scalar potential can drive the theory towards a N=2 supersymmetric ground state where massless dyons condense in the vacuum.	result 1.00	0.78	0.19	hedged possibility 0.61

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We study spontaneous supersymmetry breaking in N=2 globally supersymmetric theories describing a system of abelian vector multiplets. We find that the most general form of the action admits, in addition to the usual Fayet-Iliopoulos term, a magnetic Fayet-Iliopoulos term for the auxiliary components of dual vector multiplets. In a generic case, N=2 supersymmetry is broken down spontaneously to N=1. In some cases however, the scalar potential can drive the theory towards a N=2 supersymmetric ground state where massless dyons condense in the vacuum.

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This is the same scalar potential of [ref] , therefore we can argue that [ref] is a different off-shell completion of the same on-shell model.

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The duality transformation so performed corresponds to a choice of frame in the space of FI coefficients different from the one in the APT model [ref] but equivalent.

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Since its scalar fields cannot break the $SU(2)_R$ symmetry, a spontaneous breaking to $N=1$ is clearly impossible.[This statement holds with an arbitrary number of Maxwell multiplets.] Antoniadis, Partouche and Taylor [ref] (APT) have however invented many years ago a realization with partial breaking in which the $SU(2)_R$ symmetry is violated by electric and magnetic Fayet–Iliopoulos (FI) terms inducing a nonlinear deformation of the second supersymmetry variation of one gaugino, defining it as the (single) goldstino.

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In global 4D $𝒩=2$ theories, this was first noticed in [ref] ; and was explicitly realized in [ref] for a model of a self- interacting $𝒩=2$ vector multiplet in the presence of $𝒩=2$ electric and magnetic Fayet-Iliopoulos (FI) terms.

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It has been shown since a long time that the no-go theorem of [ref] , which forbids the partial breaking of extended supersymmetries, can be overcome by turning on appropriate fluxes [ref] , or by using non linear realisations of extended supersymmetry [ref] , or also by taking rigid limits of extended gauged supergravities [ref] ; see also [ref] for the local case.

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