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Induced scalar potentials for hypermultiplets
Christine UnkmeirSergei V. Ketovsubject
High Energy Physics - TheoryPhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsInstantonScalar (mathematics)FOS: Physical sciencesScalar potentialHigh Energy Physics::TheoryHigh Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)Supersymmetric gauge theoryMetric (mathematics)Higgs bosonCoulombHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentEffective actionMathematical physicsdescription
Charged BPS hypermultiplets can develop a non-trivial self-interaction in the Coulomb branch of an N=2 supersymmetric gauge theory, whereas neutral BPS hypermultiplets in the Higgs branch may also have a non-trivial self-interaction in the presence of Fayet-Iliopoulos terms. The exact hypermultiplet low-energy effective action (LEEA) takes the form of the non-linear sigma-model (NLSM) with a hyper-K"ahler metric. A non-trivial scalar potential is also quantum-mechanically generated at non-vanishing central charges, either perturbatively (Coulomb branch), or non-perturbatively (Higgs branch). We calculate the effective scalar potentials for (i) a single charged hypermultiplet in the Coulomb branch and (ii) a single neutral hypermultiplet in the Higgs branch. The first case corresponds to the NLSM with the Taub-NUT (or KK-monopole) metric for the kinetic LEEA, whereas the second one is attached to the NLSM having the Eguchi-Hanson instanton metric.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-10-24 | Physics Letters B |