Simple d=4 supergravity with a boundary

To construct rigidly or locally supersymmetric bulk-plus-boundary actions, one needs an extension of the usual tensor calculus. Its key ingredients are the extended (F-, D-, etc.) density formulas and the rule for the decomposition of bulk multiplets into (co-dimension one) boundary multiplets. Working out these ingredients for d=4 N=1 Poincar\'e supergravity, we discover the special role played by R-symmetry (absent in the d=3 N=1 case we studied previously). The $U(1)_A$ R-symmetry has to be gauged which leads us to extend the old-minimal set of auxiliary fields S, P, A_\mu by a $U(1)_A$ compensator $a$. Our results include the ``F+A'' density formula, the ``Q+L+A'' formula for the induced supersymmetry transformations (closing into the standard d=3 N=1 algebra) and demonstration that the compensator $a$ is the first component of the extrinsic curvature multiplet. We rely on the superconformal approach which allows us to perform, in parallel, the same analysis for new-minimal supergravity.Comment: 26 pages. JHEP forma

Brane-Localized Goldstone Fermions in Bulk Supergravity

We construct the action and transformation laws for bulk five-dimensional AdS supergravity coupled to one or two brane-localized Goldstone fermions. The resulting bulk-plus-brane system gives a model-independent description of brane-localized supersymmetry breaking in the Randall-Sundrum scenario. We explicitly reduce the action and transformation laws to spontaneously broken four-dimensional supergravity.Comment: 22 page

Wess-Zumino term in the N=4 SYM effective action revisited

The low-energy effective action for the N=4 super Yang-Mills on the Coulomb branch is known to include an SO(6)-invariant Wess-Zumino (WZ) term for the six scalar fields. For each maximal, non-anomalous subgroup of the SU(4) R-symmetry, we find a four-dimensional form of the WZ term with this subgroup being manifest. We then show that a recently proposed expression for the four-derivative part of the effective action in N=4 USp(4) harmonic superspace yields the WZ term with manifest SO(5) R-symmetry subgroup. The N=2 SU(2) harmonic superspace form of the effective action produces the WZ term with manifest SO(4) x SO(2). We argue that there is no four-dimensional form of the WZ term with manifest SU(3) R-symmetry, which is relevant for N=1 and N=3 superspace formulations of the effective action.Comment: 26 pages; minor corrections and improvement

Rigid supersymmetry with boundaries

We construct rigidly supersymmetric bulk-plus-boundary actions, both in $x$-space and in superspace. For each standard supersymmetric bulk action a minimal supersymmetric bulk-plus-boundary action follows from an extended $F$- or $D$-term formula. Additional separately supersymmetric boundary actions can be systematically constructed using co-dimension one multiplets (boundary superfields). We also discuss the orbit of boundary conditions which follow from the Euler-Lagrange variational principle.Comment: 28 pages, JHEP clas

Mass-Deformed BLG Theory in Light-Cone Superspace

Maximally supersymmetric mass deformation of the Bagger-Lambert-Gustavsson (BLG) theory corresponds to a {non-central} extension of the d=3 N=8 Poincare superalgebra (allowed in three dimensions). We obtain its light-cone superspace formulation which has a novel feature of the dynamical supersymmetry generators being {cubic} in the kinematical ones. The mass deformation picks a quaternionic direction, which breaks the SO(8) R-symmetry down to SO(4)xSO(4). The Hamiltonian of the theory is shown to be a quadratic form of the dynamical supersymmetry transformations, to all orders in the mass parameter, M, and the structure constants, f^{a b c d}.Comment: 23 page

The supermultiplet of boundary conditions in supergravity

Boundary conditions in supergravity on a manifold with boundary relate the bulk gravitino to the boundary supercurrent, and the normal derivative of the bulk metric to the boundary energy-momentum tensor. In the 3D N=1 setting, we show that these boundary conditions can be stated in a manifestly supersymmetric form. We identify the Extrinsic Curvature Tensor Multiplet, and show that boundary conditions set it equal to (a conjugate of) the boundary supercurrent multiplet. Extension of our results to higher-dimensional models (including the Randall-Sundrum and Horava-Witten scenarios) is discussed.Comment: 22 pages. JHEP format; references added; published versio

Результаты автомобильных учётов соколообразных Falconiformes на территории Ханкайско-Раздольненской равнины (Приморский край) зимой 2023/2024 гг.

В статье приведены результаты автомобильных учетов дневных хищных птиц, зимующих в условиях Ханкайско-Раздольненской равнины (юг Приморского края) зимой 2023/2024 гг. Дан анализ изменений, произошедших в численности и видовом соотношении зимующих соколообразных по сравнению с предыдущими аналогичными исследованиями, указаны их возможные причины. Всего за зимние месяцы 2023/2024 гг. было встречено 577 особей дневных хищных птиц, относящихся к десяти видам, а средняя встречаемость составила 24.4 особи на 100 км маршрута. Наиболее многочисленным видом зимующих хищных птиц, как и в предыдущие годы, являлся зимняк Buteo lagopus, доля которого составила 50.4% от всех зимующих пернатых хищников