Nonlinear Supersymmetry, Brane-bulk Interactions and Super-Higgs without Gravity

TL;DR

This paper develops a nonlinear supersymmetric coupling of hypermultiplets to Dirac-Born-Infeld Maxwell theory, revealing a super-Higgs mechanism without gravity where goldstinos form massive vector multiplets.

Contribution

It introduces a fully off-shell, nonlinear realization of supersymmetry for hypermultiplet interactions with brane fields, including an explicit super-Higgs mechanism without gravity.

Findings

Derived the nonlinear supersymmetric coupling with explicit symmetries

Constructed the dual magnetic version of the theory

Described a super-Higgs mechanism without gravity

Abstract

We derive the coupling of a hypermultiplet of N=2 global supersymmetry to the Dirac-Born-Infeld Maxwell theory with linear N=1 and a second nonlinear supersymmetry. At the level of global supersymmetry, this construction corresponds to the interaction with Maxwell brane fields of bulk hypermultiplets, such as the universal dilaton of type IIB strings compactified on a Calabi-Yau manifold. It displays in particular the active role of a four-form field. Constrained N=1 and N=2 superfields and the formulation of the hypermultiplet in its single-tensor version are used to derive the nonlinear realization, allowing a fully off-shell description. Exact results with explicit symmetries and supersymmetries are then obtained. The electric-magnetic dual version of the theory is also derived and the gauge structure of the interaction is exemplified with N=2 nonlinear QED of a charged hypermultiplet. Its Higgs phase describes a novel super-Higgs mechanism without gravity, where the goldstino is combined with half of the hypermultiplet into an N=1 massive vector multiplet.