Duality and restoration of manifest supersymmetry

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00005-3zbMATH Open1004.81558arXivhep-th/9510034OpenAlexW3099437368MaRDI QIDQ1908380FDOQ1908380

Konstadinos Sfetsos

Publication date: 27 February 1996

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

Abstract: World-sheet and spacetime supersymmetries that are manifest in some string backgrounds may not be so in their T-duals. Nevertheless, they always remain symmetries of the underlying conformal field theory. In previous work the mechanism by which T-duality destroys manifest supersymmetry and gives rise to non-local realizations was found. We give the general conditions for a 2-dim N=1 supersymmetric sigma-model to have non-local and hence non-manifest extended supersymmetry. We then examine T-duality as a mechanism of restoring manifest supersymmetry. This happens whenever appropriate combinations of non-local parafermions of the underlying conformal field theory become local due to non-trivial world-sheet effects. We present, in detail, an example arising from the model SU(2)/U(1) X SL(2,R)/U(1) and obtain a new exact 4-dim axionic instanton, that generalizes the SU(2) X U(1) semi-wormhole, and has manifest spacetime as well as N=4 world-sheet supersymmetry. In addition, general necessary conditions for abelian T-duality to preserve manifest N=4 world-sheet supersymmetry are derived and applied to WZW models based on quaternionic groups. We also prove some theorems for sigma-models with non-local N=4 world-sheet supersymmetry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9510034

zbMATH Keywords

WZW modelsabelian T dualitymanifest spacetime supersymmetriesquaternionic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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)

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• \(T\)-duality in arbitrary string backgrounds
• Canonical equivalence of non-isometric \(\sigma{}\)-models and Poisson-Lie \(T\)-duality
• \(T\)-duality and non-local supersymmetries
• Probes in fluxbranes and supersymmetry breaking through Hodge-duality
• Supersymmetry and dualities
• Warped anti-de Sitter spaces from brane intersections in type II string theory
• Geometry and duality in supersymmetric \(\sigma\)-models

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