Notes on operator equations of supercurrent multiplets and the anomaly puzzle in supersymmetric field theories

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2010)049zbMATH Open1291.81272arXiv1004.1296OpenAlexW3100289606MaRDI QIDQ2251024FDOQ2251024

Authors: Kazuya Yonekura 

Publication date: 10 July 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently, Komargodski and Seiberg have proposed a new type of supercurrent multiplet which contains the energy-momentum tensor and the supersymmetry current consistently. In this paper we study quantum properties of the supercurrent in renormalizable field theories. We point out that the new supercurrent gives a quite simple resolution to the classic problem, called the anomaly puzzle, that the Adler-Bardeen theorem applied to an R-symmetry current is inconsistent with all order corrections to $$ functions. We propose an operator equation for the supercurrent in all orders of perturbation theory, and then perform several consistency checks of the equation. The operator equation we propose is consisitent with the one proposed by Shifman and Vainshtein, if we take some care in interpreting the meaning of non-conserved currents.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.1296

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zbMATH Keywords

anomalies in field and string theoriessupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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