On extended supersymmetry of 4d Galileons and 3-brane effective actions

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2023)089MaRDI QIDQ6045641zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Henriette Elvang, Matthew Mitchell

Publication date 12 May 2023

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.12686

zbMATH Keywords

brane dynamics in gauge theorieseffective field theoriesextended supersymmetryscattering amplitudes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

Abstract: We use on-shell amplitude methods to systematically analyze the possibility of extended supersymmetry for 4d Galileon models, expanding on previous $mathcalN=1$ results. Assuming spins $le1$, we prove that there exists no $mathcalN=4$ supersymmetric extension of any 4d Galileons. Thus the Galileons cannot be part of the effective action of a single flat maximally supersymmetric D3-brane, and that explains why such terms do not appear in the $alph{a}^{\prime }$-expansion of the abelian open superstring amplitude. For $mathcalN=2$ Galileons, we show that the complex scalar $Z=phi+ichi$ of the vector supermultiplet cannot have $phi$ and $chi$ both enjoy enhanced shift symmetry; instead, $chi$ can at best be an $R$-axion with constant shift symmetry. Using the soft bootstrap, we demonstrate that the quartic DBI-Galileon is incompatible with $mathcalN=2$ supersymmetry. A similar analysis performed at 7-point shows that a 2-parameter family of $mathcalN=2$ supersymmetric quintic Galileons coupled with DBI passes the soft bootstrap. Finally, we show how supersymmetric coup-lings between Galileons and gravitons arise in generalizations of our constructions, and we conclude with a discussion of Galileons and DBI-Galileons in the context of UV-completability vs.~the Swampland.

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