Actions for (2,1) sigma models and strings

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00492-6MaRDI QIDQ1374346zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. M. Hull

Publication date 2 December 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9702067

zbMATH Keywords

4D selfdual Yang Mills fieldsEuclidean signaturefield equationshyperKähler structureKähler geometryreal structuresSL(2,\(\mathbb{R}{}\)) Kac Moody algebratorsionUhlenbeck Yau equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Model quantum field theories (81T10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: Effective actions are derived for (2,0) and (2,1) superstrings by studying the corresponding sigma-models. The geometry is a generalisation of Kahler geometry involving torsion and the field equations imply that the curvature with torsion is self-dual in four dimensions, or has SU(n,m) holonomy in other dimensions. The Yang-Mills fields are self-dual in four dimensions and satisfy a form of the Uhlenbeck-Yau equation in higher dimensions. In four dimensions with Euclidean signature, there is a hyperkahler structure and the sigma-model has (4,1) supersymmetry, while for signature (2,2) there is a hypersymplectic structure consisting of a complex structure squaring to -1 and two real structures squaring to 1. The theory is invariant under a twisted form of the (4,1) superconformal algebra which includes an SL(2,R) Kac-Moody algebra instead of an SU(2) Kac-Moody algebra. Kahler and related geometries are generalised to ones involving real structures.

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