New supersymmetric higher-derivative couplings: Full N=2 superspace does
  not count!

A Strominger; AT Banin; B Wit de; B Wit de; B Wit de; B Wit de; Bernard de Wit; E Bergshoeff; G Lopes Cardoso; GL Cardoso; I Antoniadis; I Antoniadis; IL Buchbinder; M Bershadsky; M Dine; M Henningson; M Roo de; Maaike van Zalk; PC Argyres; RJ Firth; RM Wald; S Ferrara; S Ferrara; S Ferrara; Stefanos Katmadas; T Jacobson; V Iyer

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New supersymmetric higher-derivative couplings: Full N=2 superspace does not count!

Authors: A Strominger
AT Banin
B Wit de
B Wit de
B Wit de
B Wit de
Bernard de Wit
E Bergshoeff
G Lopes Cardoso
GL Cardoso
I Antoniadis
I Antoniadis
IL Buchbinder
M Bershadsky
M Dine
M Henningson
M Roo de
Maaike van Zalk
PC Argyres
RJ Firth
RM Wald
S Ferrara
S Ferrara
S Ferrara
Stefanos Katmadas
T Jacobson
V Iyer
Publication date: 1 January 2010
Publisher: 'Springer Science and Business Media LLC'
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Abstract

An extended class of N=2 locally supersymmetric invariants with higher-derivative couplings based on full superspace integrals, is constructed. These invariants may depend on unrestricted chiral supermultiplets, on vector supermultiplets and on the Weyl supermultiplet. Supersymmetry is realized off-shell. A non-renormalization theorem is proven according to which none of these invariants can contribute to the entropy and electric charges of BPS black holes. Some of these invariants may be relevant for topological string deformations.Comment: 24 pages, v2: version published in JHEP, one reference added and typos corrected, v3: reference adde