1995/12/19 by P. Claus, B. de Wit, M. Faux +3 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Action (physics) #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Charge (physics) #Coupling (piping) #Duality (order theory) #Multiplet #Nonlinear Waves and Solitons #Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics #Supergravity #Supermultiplet #Transformation (genetics) #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(96)00101-3
published as Phys.Lett. B373 (1996) 81-88 · 8 pages, LATEX
arxiv created 1995/12/19 · openalex publication_date 1996/04/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The vector-tensor multiplet is coupled off-shell to an N=2 vector multiplet such that its central charge transformations are realized locally. A gauged central charge is a necessary prerequisite for a coupling to supergravity and the strategy underlying our construction uses the potential for such a coupling as a guiding principle. The results for the action and transformation rules take a nonlinear form and necessarily include a Chern-Simons term. After a duality transformation the action is encoded in a homogeneous holomorphic function consistent with special geometry.