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Duality of three-dimensional superfield theories

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Author(s):
Ferrari, A. F. [1] ; Gomes, M. ; Nascimento, J. R. S. ; Petrov, A. Yu ; Silva, A. J. da
Total Authors: 5
Affiliation:
[1] Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 5
Document type: Journal article
Source: Physical Review D; v. 73, n. 10, p. 105010-1-105010-8, 2006.
Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics
Abstract

Within the superfield approach, we consider the duality between the supersymmetric Maxwell-Chern-Simons and self-dual theories in three spacetime dimensions. Using a gauge embedding method, we construct the dual theory to the self-dual model interacting with a matter superfield, which turns out to be not the Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory coupled to matter, but a more complicated model, with a restricted gauge invariance. We stress the difficulties in dualizing the self-dual field coupled to matter into a theory with complete gauge invariance. After that, we show that the duality, achieved between these two models at the tree level, also holds up to the lowest order quantum corrections. (AU)