1995/12/03 by Ignatios Antoniadis, I. Antoniadis, Hervé Partouche +3 · 202 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Abelian group #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #D-term #F-term #Geometry #Ground state #Massless particle #Mathematics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Pure mathematics #Quantum mechanics #Scalar (mathematics) #Superspace #Supersymmetry #Supersymmetry breaking #Theoretical physics #Vacuum state #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(96)00028-7
published in Physics Letters B 372(1-2), 83-87 (Elsevier BV) · 12 pages, LaTeX
arxiv created 1995/12/03 · openalex publication_date 1996/04/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
We study spontaneous supersymmetry breaking in N=2 globally supersymmetric theories describing a system of abelian vector multiplets. We find that the most general form of the action admits, in addition to the usual Fayet-Iliopoulos term, a magnetic Fayet-Iliopoulos term for the auxiliary components of dual vector multiplets. In a generic case, N=2 supersymmetry is broken down spontaneously to N=1. In some cases however, the scalar potential can drive the theory towards a N=2 supersymmetric ground state where massless dyons condense in the vacuum.