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Rigidly supersymmetric gauge theories on curved superspace

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In this note we construct rigidly supersymmetric gauged sigma models and gauge theories on certain Einstein four-manifolds, and discuss constraints on these theories. In work elsewhere, it was recently shown that on some nontrivial Einstein four-manifolds such as AdS4, N = 1 rigidly supersymmetric sigma models are constrained to have target spaces with exact Kähler forms. Similarly, in gauged sigma models and gauge theories, we find that supersymmetry imposes constraints on Fayet-Iliopoulos parameters, which have the effect of enforcing that Kähler forms on quotient spaces be exact. We discuss the ‘background principle’ in this context. We also discuss general aspects of universality classes of gauged sigma models, as encoded by stacks, and also discuss affine bundle structures implicit in these constructions. In an appendix, we discuss how anomalies in four-dimensional gauge theories, such as those which play an important role in our analysis, can be recast in the language of stacks.

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Jia, B., Sharpe, E. Rigidly supersymmetric gauge theories on curved superspace. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 139 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2012)139

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