Supersymmetric Galilean Electrodynamics

Abstract

Abstract In 2+1 dimensions, we propose a renormalizable non-linear sigma model action which describes the N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 2 supersymmetric generalization of Galilean Electrodynamics. We first start with the simplest model obtained by null reduction of the relativistic Abelian N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 1 supersymmetric QED in 3+1 dimensions and study its renormalization properties directly in non-relativistic superspace. Despite the existence of a non-renormalization theorem induced by the causal structure of the non-relativistic dynamics, we find that the theory is non-renormalizable. Infinite dimensionless, supersymmetric and gauge-invariant terms, which combine into an analytic function, are generated at quantum level. Renormalizability is then restored by generalizing the theory to a non-linear sigma model where the usual minimal coupling between gauge and matter is complemented by infinitely many marginal couplings driven by a dimensionless gauge scalar and its fermionic superpartner. Superconformal invariance is preserved in correspondence of a non-trivial conformal manifold of fixed points where the theory is gauge-invariant and interacting.

Keywords

• Extended Supersymmetry
• Field Theories in Lower Dimensions
• Renormalization and Regularization
• Supersymmetric Gauge Theory