Dirac-Born-Infeld-Volkov-Akulov and deformation of supersymmetry

Eric Bergshoeff*, Frederik Coomans, Renata Kallosh, C. S. Shahbazi, Antoine Van Proeyen

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Abstract

We deform the action and the supersymmetry transformations of the d = 10 and d = 4 Maxwell supermultiplets so that at each order of the deformation the theory has 16 Maxwell multiplet deformed supersymmetries as well as 16 Volkov-Akulov type non-linear supersymmetries. The result agrees with the expansion in the string tension of the explicit action of the Dirac-Born-Infeld model and its supersymmetries, extracted from D9 and D3 superbranes, respectively. The half-maximal Dirac-Born-Infeld models with 8 Maxwell supermultiplet deformed supersymmetries and 8 Volkov-Akulov type supersymmetries are described by a new class of d = 6 vector branes related to chiral (2,0) supergravity, which we denote as 'Vp-branes'. We use a space-filling V5 superbrane for the d = 6 model and a V3 superbrane for the d = 4 half-maximal Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) models. In this way we present a completion to all orders of the deformation of the Maxwell supermultiplets with maximal 16+16 supersymmetries in d = 10 and 4, and half-maximal 8+8 supersymmetries in d = 6 and 4.

Original languageEnglish
Article number100
Pages (from-to)100-0-100-26
Number of pages27
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug-2013

Keywords

  • Extended Supersymmetry
  • D-branes
  • YANG-MILLS THEORIES
  • IIB SUPERGRAVITY
  • BRANES
  • SUPEREMBEDDINGS
  • SUPERBRANES
  • MODEL
  • N=2

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