Higher derivative super Yang-Mills theories Academic Article

abstract

• The most general higher derivative Yang-Mills actions of the type (F2 + 2F4) which are globally supersymmetric up to order 2 in six- and ten-dimensional spacetimes are given. The F4-terms turn out to occur in the combination 2[tr F4 - 1 4 (tr F2)2], where the trace is over the Lorentz indices. This result sgrees with the low energy limit of the open superstrin g in ten dimensions, where is the string tension. Surprisingly, the transformation rules of the Yang-Mills multiplet receive order 2 corrections even in the off-shell formulation. For the case of abelian Yang-Mills group, the action is expressed in Born-Infeld form with a metric generically given by (1+2F2+). 1987.

authors

• Sezgin, Ergin

published proceedings

• Physics Letters B

author list (cited authors)

• Bergshoeff, E., Rakowski, M., & Sezgin, E.

citation count

• 82

complete list of authors

• Bergshoeff, E||Rakowski, M||Sezgin, E

publication date

• February 1987

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Physics Letters B  Journal

keywords

• 49 Mathematical Sciences
• 4902 Mathematical Physics
• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5106 Nuclear And Plasma Physics
• 5107 Particle And High Energy Physics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/0370-2693(87)91017-3

start page

• 371

end page

• 376

volume

• 185

issue

• 3-4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(87)91017-3