What is special Kähler geometry?

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00408-2zbMATH Open0951.81088arXivhep-th/9703082OpenAlexW3103567541MaRDI QIDQ1367558FDOQ1367558

Frederik Roose, B. Craps, Antoine van Proeyen, Walter Troost

Publication date: 24 September 1997

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

Abstract: The scalars in vector multiplets of N=2 supersymmetric theories in 4 dimensions exhibit `special Kaehler geometry', related to duality symmetries, due to their coupling to the vectors. In the literature there is some confusion on the definition of special geometry. We show equivalences of some definitions and give examples which show that earlier definitions are not equivalent, and are not sufficient to restrict the Kaehler metric to one that occurs in N=2 supersymmetry. We treat the rigid as well as the local supersymmetry case. The connection is made to moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and Calabi-Yau 3-folds. The conditions for the existence of a prepotential translate to a condition on the choice of canonical basis of cycles.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9703082

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zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacesRiemann surfacesCalabi-Yau 3-foldssymplectic transformationsvector multipletsduality symmetriesrigid supersymmetryspecial Kähler geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Supergravity (83E50) Applications of deformations of analytic structures to the sciences (32G81) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26)

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