Lagrangians with electric and magnetic charges of N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories

Abstract

General Lagrangians are constructed for N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories in four space-time dimensions involving gauge groups with (non-abelian) electric and magnetic charges. The charges induce a scalar potential, which, when the charges are regarded as spurionic quantities, is invariant under electric/magnetic duality. The resulting theories are especially relevant for supergravity, but details of the extension to local supersymmetry will be discussed elsewhere. The results include the coupling to hypermultiplets. Without the latter, it is demonstrated how an off-shell representation can be constructed based on vector and tensor supermultiplets.

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References in corpus (3)

• The maximal D=4 supergravities
• Gauged N=4 supergravities
• Off-shell N=2 tensor supermultiplets

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