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Off-shell construction of superconformal Chern-Simons theories in three dimensions

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We propose an off-shell construction of three-dimensional \( \mathcal{N} = {3} \) and \( \mathcal{N} = {4} \) superconformal Abelian Chern-Simons theories in the projective superspace formalism. We also construct coupling terms among the gauge fields and matter hypermultiplets.

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    Masato Arai

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    Shin Sasaki

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Arai, M., Sasaki, S. Off-shell construction of superconformal Chern-Simons theories in three dimensions. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 64 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2012)064

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