A manifestly MHV Lagrangian for N = 4 Yang-Mills

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2011)051zbMATH Open1296.81052arXiv1101.3540OpenAlexW2951710433MaRDI QIDQ457447FDOQ457447

Sarthak Parikh, Stefano Kovacs, Sudarshan Ananth

Publication date: 26 September 2014

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

Abstract: We derive a manifestly MHV Lagrangian for the N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in light-cone superspace. This is achieved by constructing a canonical redefinition which maps the N=4 superfield and its conjugate to a new pair of superfields. In terms of these new superfields the N=4 Lagrangian takes a (non-polynomial) manifestly MHV form, containing vertices involving two superfields of negative helicity and an arbitrary number of superfields of positive helicity. We also discuss constraints satisfied by the new superfields, which ensure that they describe the correct degrees of freedom in the N=4 supermultiplet. We test our derivation by showing that an expansion of our superspace Lagrangian in component fields reproduces the correct gluon MHV vertices.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3540

zbMATH Keywords

extended supersymmetrysuperspacessupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functional analysis on superspaces (supermanifolds) or graded spaces (46S60) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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