On the holomorphic factorization for superconformal fields

DOI10.1007/BF00739565MaRDI QIDQ2366641zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors François Gieres

Publication date 2 September 1998

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9209078

zbMATH Keywords

holomorphic factorizationpartition functionssuper Riemann surfacessuper string theorysuper-conformal fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supervarieties (14M30) Riemann surfaces (30F99) Complex supergeometry (32C11) Applications of analytic spaces to physics and other areas of science (32C81) Applications of deformations of analytic structures to the sciences (32G81) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: For a generic value of the central charge, we prove the holomorphic factorization of partition functions for free superconformal fields which are defined on a compact Riemann surface without boundary. The partition functions are viewed as functionals of the Beltrami coefficients and their fermionic partners which variables parametrize superconformal classes of metrics.

Review text

For bosonic string theory in critical dimension, e.g. without conformal (Weyl-)anomaly, the Belavin-Knizhnik theorem [\textit{A. A. Belavin} and \textit{V. G. Knizhnik}, Phys. Lett. B 168, No. 3, 201-206 (1986; Zbl 0693.58043)] says that the partition function can be factorized as wedge product of a holomorphic form, the Mumford form, with its complex conjugate on the moduli space of compact Riemann surfaces. For more information see also \textit{A. A. Beilinson} and \textit{Yu. I. Manin} in Commun. Math. Phys. 107, 359-376 (1986; Zbl 0604.14016). The author of the article under review proves for a generic value of the central charge the holomorphic factorization of partition functions for free super-conformal fields which are defined on a compact Riemann surface without boundary. The partition functions are viewed as functionals of the Beltrami coefficients and their fermionic partners (they parametrize superconformal classes of metrics). To compensate for the conformal (Weyl-)anomaly a local counterterm is added which shifts the anomaly to the chirally split form of the superdiffeomorphism anomaly. The article relies on the notation and the results of the following articles: \textit{J. P. Ader}, \textit{F. Gieres}, and \textit{Y. Noirot} in Classical Quantum Gravity 10, No. 1, 1-18 (1993; Zbl 0784.58014) and \textit{F. Delduc} and \textit{F. Gieres} in Classical Quantum Gravity 7, No. 11, 1907-1952 (1990; Zbl 0714.53058).

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Cites work

• Beltrami differentials, conformal models and their supersymmetric generalizations

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