1997/01/28 by Sergei V. Ketov, Sergei V Ketov
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(97)00264-5
published as Phys.Lett. B399 (1997) 83-91 · 12 pages, LaTeX, one figure and macros included
arxiv created 1997/01/28 · openalex publication_date 1997/04/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The effective low-energy hyper-K"ahler potential for a massive N=2 matter in the N=2 super-QCD is investigated. The N=2 extended supersymmetry severely restricts that N=2 matter self-couplings so that their exact form can be fixed by a few parameters, which is apparent in the N=2 harmonic superspace. In the N=2 QED with a single matter hypermultiplet, the one-loop perturbative calculations lead to the Taub-NUT hyper-K"ahler metric in the massive case, and a free metric in the massless case. It is remarkable that the naive non-renormalization `theorem' does not apply. There exists a manifestly N=2 supersymmetric duality transformation converting the low-energy effective action for the N=2 QED hypermultiplet into a sum of the quadratic and the improved (non-polynomial) actions for an N=2 tensor multiplet. The duality transformation also gives a simple connection between the low-energy effective action in the N=2 harmonic superspace and the component results.