2020/12/31 by Dominik Rist, Christian Saemann, Miro van der Worp +1 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Action (physics) #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Gauge (firearms) #Gauge theory #Homotopy #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Interpretation (philosophy) #Multiplet #Tensor (intrinsic definition) #Tensor calculus #Tensor field #hep-th #math-ph #math.MP
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep06(2021)036
published as JHEP 2106 (2021) 036 · 29 pages, typos fixed, clarifications added, published version
openalex publication_date 2021/06/01 · arxiv created 2021/06/08 · arxiv updated 2021/06/09 · openalex created_date 2021/06/22 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
A bstract We present a six-dimensional N <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> </mml:math> = (1 , 0) supersymmetric higher gauge theory in which self-duality is consistently implemented by physically trivial additional fields. The action contains both N <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> </mml:math> = (1 , 0) tensor and vector multiplets and is non-trivially interacting. The tensor multiplet part is loosely related to a recently proposed action by Sen that leads to on-shell self-duality in an elegant way. As we also show, Sen’s action finds a very natural and direct interpretation from a homotopy algebraic perspective.