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What is the methodology used to construct a non-trivial superspace action for the Goldstone superfield?

The methodology of deriving nonlinear realizations of supersymmetry from appropriate linear ones.

What is the outcome of applying the general method of deriving nonlinear realizations of supersymmetry on a deformation of the 3D N = 2 Maxwell multiplet?

The above results are understood as the outcome.

What is the 3D N =1 superspace action corresponding to the 3D BI theory?

The 3D N =1 superspace action corresponds to the 3D BI theory.

What are the N = 2 multiplets identified in the work?

<p>The vector and the chiral multiplets.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What multiplets give rise to the 3D, N = 1 Maxwell-Goldstone and the 3D, N = 1 Tensor- Goldstone multiplets?

<p>The vector and the chiral multiplets respectively.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What transformation generates an inversion of a characteristic dimensionless parameter λ?

<p>A duality transformation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the —unique to 3D— gauge invariant, Chern-Simons-like mass term of the Maxwell-Goldstone action generate?

<p>One parameter family deformations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the deformation of the —unique to 3D— gauge invariant, Chern-Simons-like mass term of the Maxwell-Goldstone action explicitly break?

<p>The first, linear, supersymmetry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the methodology used to derive the bosonic and fermionic parts of the supersymmetric spacetime actions?

<p>The constraint superfield approach.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was emphasized about the methodology used?

<p>It does not permit the construction of a non-trivial superspace action for the independent Goldstone superfield.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the superspace action derived in the 4D, N = 1 supersymmetric Born-Infeld (BI) action based on?

<p>the dynamics of the massless Goldstone supermultiplet associated with the partial breaking of the second supersymmetry</p> Signup and view all the answers

What method can be used to construct nonlinear realizations of a symmetry?

<p>starting with a linear representation of that symmetry and imposing consistent nonlinear constraints</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the constrained superfield approach lead to?

<p>the constrained superfield approach led to the superspace Lagrangian</p> Signup and view all the answers

Is the superspace Lagrangian uniquely determined by demanding invariance under the nonlinear supersymmetry?

<p>No, there exists a consistent deformation of the theory by adding a Fayet-Iliopoulos (FI) term</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the effect of the FI term added to the superspace action?

<p>it gives a nonzero VEV to the auxiliary component of the vector multiplet and therefore it spontaneously breaks the first supersymmetry</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of using dualities in mapping actions to dual actions?

<p>to map it to a dual action with equivalent on-shell dynamics</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the duality transformation for the BI action and its 4D supersymmetric extension?

<p>the standard electric-magnetic duality</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the self-duality group of the effective D3-branes?

<p>SL(2,R)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the special role of the D2-brane in IIA theory?

<p>it can be interpreted as the (M-theory) eleven-dimensional supermembrane</p> Signup and view all the answers

What method can be used to derive the 3D N = 1 supersymmetric extension of the effective Born-Infeld action associated with the D2-brane?

<p>dimensionally reduce the 4D results of down to 3D in a way that breaks half the supercharges</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the connection between partial supersymmetry breaking and nonlinear realizations of extended supersymmetries?

<p>The deep connection between partial supersymmetry breaking and nonlinear realizations of extended supersymmetries has been studied extensively.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the effective description of Dp-branes?

<p>The effective description of Dp-branes is the solitonic solutions of string theory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What happens when a boundary is introduced to the world-sheet theory?

<p>The introduction of a boundary to the world-sheet theory breaks some of the spatial translational symmetries and half of the supersymmetries.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does it mean for D-branes to correspond to BPS saturated soliton states?

<p>D-branes correspond to BPS saturated soliton states, which means they acquire a lower-dimensional effective description.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the bosonic part of the lower-dimensional effective description of Dp-branes?

<p>The bosonic part of the lower-dimensional effective description of Dp-branes is given by the DBI action for the corresponding collective coordinates and the world volume gauge field.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the relationship between the DBI action and the nonlinear Born-Infeld type of action of open string theory?

<p>The DBI action for all p-branes (p &lt; 9) always corresponds to the dimensional reduction of the ten-dimensional (D9-brane) BI action.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the reason for the existence of effective nonlinear descriptions for Dp-branes?

<p>The existence of these effective nonlinear descriptions follows directly from the partial supersymmetry breaking N = 2 → N = 1.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How is the memory of a spontaneously broken symmetry captured?

<p>The memory of a spontaneously broken symmetry is captured through nonlinear realizations of that symmetry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How are the nonlinear realizations of supersymmetry defined?

<p>The nonlinear realizations of supersymmetry are defined via nonlinear constraints.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of actions do the nonlinear constraints generate for D-branes?

<p>The nonlinear constraints generate precisely the Born-Infeld type actions that appear in the effective actions of D-branes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the superspace action derived in the 4D, N = 1 supersymmetric Born-Infeld (BI) action based on?

<p>The understanding that it will correspond to the dynamics of the massless Goldstone supermultiplet associated with the partial breaking of the second supersymmetry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the special role of the D2-brane in IIA theory?

<p>It can be interpreted as the (M- theory) eleven-dimensional supermembrane.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the duality transformation for the BI action and its 4D supersymmetric extension?

<p>The standard electric-magnetic duality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the methodology used to derive the bosonic and fermionic parts of the supersymmetric spacetime actions?

<p>Dimensional reduction of the 4D results down to 3D in a way that breaks half the supercharges.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the path followed in deriving the 3D N = 1 supersymmetric extension of the effective Born-Infeld action associated with the D2-brane?

<p>The use of the coset approach which provides a systematic method of constructing nonlinear realizations and studying properties of Goldstone fields.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the Goldstone superfields associated with the broken supersymmetry and rotation generators expressed in terms of?

<p>The Goldstone superfield associated with the broken translational symmetry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the outcome of applying the general method of deriving nonlinear realizations of supersymmetry on a deformation of the 3D N = 2 Maxwell multiplet?

<p>The deformed theory still enjoys an unbroken N = 1 symmetry which corresponds to a different choice of an N = 1 subsector of the N = 2 theory than the one that is made manifest.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the deformation of the —unique to 3D— gauge invariant, Chern-Simons-like mass term of the Maxwell-Goldstone action explicitly break?

<p>The first supersymmetry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of using dualities in mapping actions to dual actions?

<p>To find dual actions with equivalent on-shell dynamics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the relationship between the DBI action and the nonlinear Born-Infeld type of action of open string theory?

<p>The DBI action is a special case of the nonlinear Born-Infeld type of action.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the effective description of Dp-branes in string theory?

<p>The effective description of Dp-branes in string theory is given by the DBI action for the corresponding collective coordinates and the world volume gauge field.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the connection between partial supersymmetry breaking and nonlinear realizations of extended supersymmetries?

<p>There is a deep connection between partial supersymmetry breaking and nonlinear realizations of extended supersymmetries.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does it mean for D-branes to correspond to BPS saturated soliton states?

<p>D-branes correspond to BPS saturated soliton states means that they preserve some of the supersymmetry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the relationship between the DBI action and the nonlinear Born-Infeld type of action of open string theory?

<p>The DBI action for Dp-branes is closely related to the nonlinear Born-Infeld type of action of open string theory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the reason for the existence of effective nonlinear descriptions for Dp-branes?

<p>The existence of effective nonlinear descriptions for Dp-branes follows directly from the partial supersymmetry breaking.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the N = 2 multiplets identified in the work?

<p>The N = 2 multiplets identified in the work are the Maxwell-Goldstone and the Tensor-Goldstone multiplets.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the methodology used to derive the bosonic and fermionic parts of the supersymmetric spacetime actions?

<p>The methodology used to derive the bosonic and fermionic parts of the supersymmetric spacetime actions is the constrained superfield approach.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the outcome of applying the general method of deriving nonlinear realizations of supersymmetry on a deformation of the 3D N = 2 Maxwell multiplet?

<p>The outcome of applying the general method of deriving nonlinear realizations of supersymmetry on a deformation of the 3D N = 2 Maxwell multiplet is the 3D N = 1 supersymmetric extension.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the effective description of Dp-branes?

<p>The effective description of Dp-branes is given by the DBI action.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the superspace action derived in the 4D, N = 1 supersymmetric Born-Infeld (BI) action based on?

<p>The superspace action derived in the 4D, N = 1 supersymmetric Born-Infeld (BI) action is based on the dimensional reduction of the ten-dimensional BI action.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the methodology used to derive the bosonic and fermionic parts of the supersymmetric spacetime actions?

<p>The methodology used to derive the bosonic and fermionic parts of the supersymmetric spacetime actions is the general method of deriving nonlinear realizations of supersymmetry from appropriate linear ones.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the relationship between the DBI action and the nonlinear Born-Infeld type of action of open string theory?

<p>The relationship between the DBI action and the nonlinear Born-Infeld type of action of open string theory is that the DBI action is an effective nonlinear description of the Born-Infeld type of action.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the reason for the existence of effective nonlinear descriptions for Dp-branes?

<p>The reason for the existence of effective nonlinear descriptions for Dp-branes is the presence of spontaneously broken symmetries.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the deformation of the —unique to 3D— gauge invariant, Chern-Simons-like mass term of the Maxwell-Goldstone action explicitly break?

<p>The deformation of the —unique to 3D— gauge invariant, Chern-Simons-like mass term of the Maxwell-Goldstone action explicitly breaks the first, linear, supersymmetry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the 3D N =1 superspace action corresponding to the 3D BI theory?

<p>The 3D N =1 superspace action corresponding to the 3D BI theory is the action associated with the effective description of the D2-brane.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What multiplets give rise to the 3D, N = 1 Maxwell-Goldstone and the 3D, N = 1 Tensor- Goldstone multiplets?

<p>The vector multiplet gives rise to the 3D, N = 1 Maxwell-Goldstone multiplet, and the chiral multiplet gives rise to the 3D, N = 1 Tensor-Goldstone multiplet.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the duality transformation for the BI action and its 4D supersymmetric extension?

<p>The duality transformation for the BI action and its 4D supersymmetric extension generates an inversion of a characteristic dimensionless parameter λ.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the —unique to 3D— gauge invariant, Chern-Simons-like mass term of the Maxwell-Goldstone action generate?

<p>The —unique to 3D— gauge invariant, Chern-Simons-like mass term of the Maxwell-Goldstone action generates one parameter family deformations which respect the non-linearly realized supersymmetry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the superspace action derived in the 4D, N = 1 supersymmetric Born-Infeld (BI) action based on?

<p>The superspace action derived in the 4D, N = 1 supersymmetric Born-Infeld (BI) action is based on the 3D BI theory and its corresponding superspace action.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the outcome of applying the general method of deriving nonlinear realizations of supersymmetry on a deformation of the 3D N = 2 Maxwell multiplet?

<p>The outcome of applying the general method of deriving nonlinear realizations of supersymmetry on a deformation of the 3D N = 2 Maxwell multiplet is the 3D N =1 superspace action corresponding to the 3D BI theory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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