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The conditions for fully supersymmetric backgrounds of general N = 2 locally supersymmetric theories are derived based on the off-shell superconformal multiplet calculus. This enables the derivation of a non-renormalization theorem for a large class of supersymmetric invariants with higher-derivative couplings. The theorem implies that the invariant and its first order variation must vanish in a fully supersymmetric background. The conjectured relation of one particular higher-derivative invariant with a specific five-dimensional invariant containing the mixed gauge-gravitational Chern-Simons term is confirmed.
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Butter, D., de Wit, B. & Lodato, I. Non-renormalization theorems and N = 2 supersymmetric backgrounds. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 131 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2014)131
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