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We present a six-dimensional \( \mathcal{N} \) = (1, 0) supersymmetric higher gauge theory in which self-duality is consistently implemented by physically trivial additional fields. The action contains both \( \mathcal{N} \) = (1, 0) tensor and vector multiplets and is non-trivially interacting. The tensor multiplet part is loosely related to a recently proposed action by Sen that leads to on-shell self-duality in an elegant way. As we also show, Sen’s action finds a very natural and direct interpretation from a homotopy algebraic perspective.
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Rist, D., Saemann, C. & van der Worp, M. Towards an M5-brane model. Part III. Self-duality from additional trivial fields. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 36 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2021)036
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