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In this paper the harmonic superspace action of the tensor multiplet of N = (1, 0), d = 6 supersymmetry is constructed which in the bosonic limit reduces to the known Pasti-Sorokin-Tonin action for the self-dual tensor field. The action involves, besides the potential containing the dynamical fields, also an auxiliary tensor multiplet and a set of analytic superfields with gauge PST scalar among them. For each of gauge symmetries of the PST action, a superfield analog is found. The equations of motion are calculated and it is shown that no extra degrees of freedom appear.
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Kozyrev, N. Supersymmetrizing the Pasti-Sorokin-Tonin action. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 223 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2023)223
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