Higher-spin gauge models with (1,1) supersymmetry in AdS${}_3$: Reduction to (1,0) superspace

TL;DR

This paper investigates how higher-spin gauge models with (1,1) supersymmetry in AdS3 can be systematically reduced to (1,0) superspace, revealing their decomposition into multiple (1,0) supermultiplets.

Contribution

It provides a detailed reduction of (1,1) AdS supersymmetric higher-spin models to (1,0) superspace, clarifying their structure and relation to known (1,0) theories.

Findings

Higher-spin models decompose into sums of (1,0) supermultiplets.

Every (1,1) or (2,0) AdS higher-spin theory reduces to four series of (1,0) models.

The reduction elucidates the structure of supersymmetric higher-spin gauge theories.

Abstract

In three dimensions, there are two types of ${\cal N}=2$ anti-de Sitter (AdS) supersymmetry, which are denoted (1,1) and (2,0). They are characterised by different supercurrents and support different families of higher-spin gauge models (massless and massive) which were constructed in arXiv:1807.09098 and arXiv:1809.00802 for the (1,1) and (2,0) cases, respectively, using superspace techniques. It turns out that the precise difference between the (1,1) and (2,0) higher-spin supermultiplets can be pinned down by reducing these gauge theories to (1,0) AdS superspace. The present paper is devoted to the $(1,1) \to (1,0)$ AdS superspace reduction. In conjunction with the outcomes of the $(2,0) \to (1,0)$ AdS superspace reduction carried out in arXiv:1905.05050, we demonstrate that every known higher-spin theory with (1,1) or (2,0) AdS supersymmetry decomposes into a sum of two off-shell (1,0) supermultiplets which belong to four series of inequivalent higher-spin gauge models. The latter are reduced to components.