Super-Virasoro anomaly, super-Weyl anomaly, and the super-Liouville action for 2D supergravity

DOI10.1006/APHY.1996.5643MaRDI QIDQ1269396zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tadao Suzuki, Takanori Fujiwara, Hiroshi Igarashi

Publication date 4 February 1999

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9605138

zbMATH Keywords

BRST invariancesuper-Liouville fieldsWZW action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50)

Abstract: The relation between super-Virasoro anomaly and super-Weyl anomaly in $N=1$ NSR superstring coupled with 2D supergravity is investigated from canonical theoretical view point. The WZW action canceling the super-Virasoro anomaly is explicitly constructed. It is super-Weyl invariant but nonlocal functional of 2D supergravity. The nonlocality can be remedied by the super-Liouvlle action, which in turn recovers the super-Weyl anomaly. The final gravitational effective action turns out to be local but noncovariant super-Liouville action, describing the dynamical behavior of the super-Liouville fields. The BRST invariance of this approach is examined in the superconformal gauge and in the light-cone gauge.

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