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In this note we extend the Pasti-Sorokin-Tonin formalism for chiral bosons in two dimensions to N = (1, 1) and N = (2, 2) superspace. In the latter case the formalism is developed for chiral, twisted chiral and semi-chiral superfields.
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Sevrin, A., Thompson, D.C. A note on supersymmetric chiral bosons. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 86 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2013)086
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