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Axion gauge symmetries and generalized Chern-Simons terms in N=1 supersymmetric theories

L. Andrianopoli, S. Ferrara, M. A. Lledo'

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0402142

Abstract

We compute the form of the Lagrangian of N=1 supersymmetric theories with gauged axion symmetries. It turns out that there appear generalized Chern-Simons terms that were not considered in previous superspace formulations of general N=1 theories. Such gaugings appear in supergravities arising from flux compactifications of superstrings, as well as from Scherk-Schwarz generalized dimensional reduction in M-theory. We also present the dual superspace formulation where axion chiral multiplets are dualized into linear multiplets.

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