A Note on Supersymmetric WZW term in Four Dimensions

Abstract

We reconsider the supersymmetric Wess-Zumino-Witten (SWZW) term in four dimensions. It has been known that the manifestly supersymmetric form of the SWZW term includes derivative terms on auxiliary fields, the highest components of chiral superfields, and then we cannot eliminate them by their equations of motion. We discuss a possibility for the elimination of such derivative terms by adding total derivative terms. Although the most of derivative terms can be eliminated as in this way, we find that all the derivative terms can be canceled, if and only if an anomalous term in SWZW term vanishes. As a byproduct, we find the first example of a higher derivative term free from such a problem.

LaTeX, 10 pages, no figures, typos corrected, references added, accepted for publication in Modern Physics Letters A

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• The Superspace WZNW Action for 4D, N=1 Supersymmetric QCD

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