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Some Pathways in non-Linear Supersymmetry: Special Geometry Born-Infeld's, Cosmology and dualities
This review is devoted to some aspects of non-linear Supersymmetry in four
dimensions that can be efficiently described via nilpotent superfields, in both
rigid and curved Superspace. Our focus is mainly on the partial breaking of
rigid Supersymmetry and on a class of generalized Born-Infeld systems
that originate from Special Geometry and on some prototype cosmological models,
starting from the Supergravity embedding of Starobinsky inflation. However, as
an aside we also review briefly some interesting two-field extensions of the
Born-Infeld Lagrangian whose field equations enjoy extended duality symmetries.Comment: Contribution to the Proceedings of "Group Theory, Probability, and
the Structure of Spacetime", A Conference on the Occasion of Professor V.S.
Varadarajan's Retirement, UCLA Mathematics Department, November 7-9, 2014. To
appear in a special issue of "p-Adic Numbers, Ultrametric Analysis and
Applications". 35 pages LaTeX, 1 eps figure. Typos corrected, reference adde
Massive Born--Infeld and Other Dual Pairs
We consider massive dual pairs of p-forms and (D-p-1)-forms described by
non-linear Lagrangians, where non-linear curvature terms in one theory
translate into non-linear mass-like terms in the dual theory. In particular,
for D=2p and p even the two non-linear structures coincide when the non-linear
massless theory is self-dual. This state of affairs finds a natural realization
in the four-dimensional massive N=1 supersymmetric Born-Infeld action, which
describes either a massive vector multiplet or a massive linear (tensor)
multiplet with a Born-Infeld mass-like term. These systems should play a role
for the massive gravitino multiplet obtained from a partial super-Higgs in N=2
Supergravity.Comment: 17 pages, LaTeX. Misprints corrected. Final version to appear in JHE
Doubly Self-Dual Actions in Various Dimensions
The self-duality of the N=1 supersymmetric Born--Infeld action implies a
double self-duality of the tensor multiplet square-root action when the scalar
and the antisymmetric tensor are interchanged via Poincare' duality. We show
how this phenomenon extends to D space-time dimensions for non-linear actions
involving pairs of forms of rank p and D-p-2. As a byproduct, we construct a
new two-field generalization of the Born-Infeld action whose equations of
motion are invariant under a U(1) duality. In these systems, the introduction
of Green-Schwarz terms results in explicit non-linear mass-like terms for dual
massive pairs.Comment: 17 pages, LaTeX. References added, duality group of eq. (4.16)
changed to SU(2). Final version to appear in JHE
Cosmology and Supergravity
Abdus Salam was a true master of 20th Century Theoretical Physics. Not only
was he a pioneer of the Standard Model (for which he shared the Nobel Prize
with S. Glashow and S.Weinberg), but he also (co)authored many other
outstanding contributions to the field of Fundamental Interactions and their
unification. In particular, he was a major contributor to the development of
supersymmetric theories, where he also coined the word "Supersymmetry"
(replacing the earlier "Supergauges" drawn from String Theory). He also
introduced the basic concept of "Superspace" and the notion of "Goldstone
Fermion"(Goldstino). These concepts proved instrumental for the exploration of
the ultraviolet properties and for the study of spontaneously broken phases of
super Yang-Mills theories and Supergravity. They continue to play a key role in
current developments in Early-Universe Cosmology. In this contribution we
review models of inflation based on Supergravity with spontaneously broken
local supersymmetry, with emphasis on the role of nilpotent superfields to
describe a de Sitter phase of our Universe.Comment: 20 pages, Latex. Contribution to the Proceedings of the "Memorial
Meeting for Nobel Laureate Prof. Abdus Salam's 90th Birthday", Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore, 25-28 January 2016. arXiv admin note:
text overlap with arXiv:1509.0150
Scale invariant Volkov-Akulov Supergravity
A scale invariant Goldstino theory coupled to Supergravity is obtained as a
standard supergravity dual of a rigidly scale invariant higher--curvature
Supergravity with a nilpotent chiral scalar curvature. The bosonic part of this
theory describes a massless scalaron and a massive axion in a de Sitter
Universe.Comment: CERN-PH-TH-2015-193. Misprints corrected. Final version to appear in
Phys. Lett.
Two-Field Born-Infeld with Diverse Dualities
We elaborate on how to build, in a systematic fashion, two-field Abelian
extensions of the Born-Infeld Lagrangian. These models realize the non-trivial
duality groups that are allowed in this case, namely U(2), SU(2) and U(1)xU(1).
For each class, we also construct an explicit example. They all involve an
overall square root and reduce to the Born-Infeld model if the two fields are
identified, but differ in quartic and higher interactions. The U(1)xU(1) and
SU(2) examples recover some recent results obtained with different techniques,
and we show that the U(1)xU(1) model admits an N=1 supersymmetric completion.
The U(2) example includes some unusual terms that are not analytic at the
origin of field space.Comment: 30 pages. Final version with reference added, typo corrected and
comment added in the Conclusions. To appear in a special Nucl. Phys. B issue
dedicated to the memory of Raymond Stor
Comments on the classification of orientifolds
The simple current construction of orientifolds based on rational conformal
field theories is reviewed. When applied to SO(16) level 1, one can describe
all ten-dimensional orientifolds in a unified framework.Comment: 9 pages, Contribution to proceedings of RTN-workshop in Leuven,
Belgium, September 200
Generalized Born--Infeld Actions and Projective Cubic Curves
We investigate supersymmetric Born-Infeld Lagrangians with a
second non-linearly realized supersymmetry. The resulting non-linear structure
is more complex than the square root present in the standard Born-Infeld
action, and nonetheless the quadratic constraints determining these models can
be solved exactly in all cases containing three vector multiplets. The
corresponding models are classified by cubic holomorphic prepotentials. Their
symmetry structures are associated to projective cubic varieties.Comment: 17 pages, LaTeX, 1 eps figure. Comments added and misprints
corrected. Final version to appear in Fortschritte der Physik - Progress of
Physic
Mass scales, supersymmetry breaking and open strings
We review physical motivations and possible realizations of string vacua with
large internal volume and/or low string scale and discuss the issue of
supersymmetry breaking. In particular, we describe the key features of
Scherk-Schwarz deformations in type I models and conclude by reviewing the
phenomenon of ``brane supersymmetry breaking'': the tadpole conditions of some
type-I models require that supersymmetry be {\it broken at the string scale} on
a collection of branes, while being exact, to lowest order, in the bulk and on
other branes.Comment: Based on talks presented by the authors at STRINGS '99. Submitted to
Classical and Quantum Gravity. misprints correcte
Degeneracy Between the Regge Slope of Mesons and Baryons from Supersymmetry
We consider the degeneracy between the Regge slope of mesons and baryons in
QCD. We argue that within the "orientifold large-N approximation"
asymptotically massive mesons and baryons become supersymmetric partners and
hence degenerate. To this end, we generalize QCD by a SU(N) theory with a quark
in the two-index antisymmetric representation. We show that in this framework
the meson is represented by an oriented bosonic QCD-string and the baryon is
represented by an un-oriented fermionic QCD-string. At large-N, due to an
equivalence with super Yang-Mills, the tensions of the bosonic and the
fermionic strings coincide. Our description of mesons and baryons as oriented
and un-oriented bosonic and fermionic QCD-strings is in full agreement with the
spectra of open strings in the dual type 0' string theory.Comment: v2: extended version. Appendices and references adde
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