Dynamical description of spectral flow in N = 2 superconformal field theories

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00291-5zbMATH Open0934.81055arXivhep-th/9702088OpenAlexW2031581197MaRDI QIDQ1361934FDOQ1361934

I. I. Kogan, Richard J. Szabo, Leith Cooper

Publication date: 31 July 1997

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show how the spectral flow between the Neveu-Schwarz and Ramond sectors of N=2 superconformal field theories can be described in three dimensions in terms of the propagation of charged particles coupled to a a Chern-Simons gauge theory. Quantum mechanical mixing between the degenerate Chern-Simons vacua interpolates between the different boundary conditions of the two sectors and so provides a dynamical picture for the GSO-projection.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9702088

zbMATH Keywords

boundary conditionsChern-Simons gauge theory\(N=2\) super Virasoro algebradegenerate Chern-Simons vacuaGliozzi-Scherk-Olive projectionNeveu-Schwarz sectorRamond sector

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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• Mirror maps in Chern-Simons gauge theory
• \(D\)-branes in topological membranes
• Siegel paramodular forms and sparseness in \(\mathrm{AdS}_{3}/\mathrm{CFT}_{2}\)
• N=2 supersymmetric RG flows and the IIB dilaton
• EMBEDDING DIAGRAMS OF THE N=2 SUPERCONFORMAL ALGEBRA UNDER SPECTRAL FLOW
• On the renormalization group flow in two dimensional superconformal models
• The even and the odd spectral flows on the \(N=2\) superconformal algebras
• Instanton and spectral flow in topological conformal field theories

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