Hypermultiplet dependence of the effective action in ${\cal N}=2$ superconformal theories

Abstract

I review the approach [1] to the one-loop low-energy effective action in the hypermultiplet sector for N=2 superconformal models. Any such a model contains an N=2 vector multiplet and some number of hypermultiplets. We found a general expression for the low-energy effective action in the form of a proper-time integral. The leading space-time dependent contributions to the effective action are derived and their bosonic component structure is analyzed. The component action contains terms with three and four space-time derivatives of component fields and has the Chern-Simons-like form.