Hypermultiplet dependence of one-loop effective action in the ${\cal N}=2$ superconformal theories

TL;DR

This paper derives a general expression for the one-loop low-energy effective action in the hypermultiplet sector of ${\ m N}=2$ superconformal theories, highlighting derivative terms and Chern-Simons structure.

Contribution

It provides a novel, general proper-time integral expression for the effective action in ${\rm N}=2$ superconformal models with hypermultiplets and analyzes its derivative and component structure.

Findings

Derived the effective action as a proper-time integral.

Identified three- and four-derivative terms in the component action.

Revealed Chern-Simons form in the low-energy effective action.

Abstract

We study one-loop low-energy effective action in the hypermultiplet sector for ${\cal N}=2$ superconformal models. Any such a model contains ${\cal N}=2$ vector multiplet and some number of hypermultiplets. Gauge group $G$ is assumed to be broken down to $\tilde{G}\times K$ where $K$ is an Abelian subgroup and a background vector multiplet belongs to the Cartan subalgebra corresponding to $K$. We find a general expression for the low-energy effective action in a form of a proper-time integral. The leading space-time dependent contributions to the effective action are derived and their bosonic component structure is analyzed. The component action contains the terms with three and four space-time derivatives of component fields and has the Chern-Simons form.