N=2 gauged WZW models and the elliptic genus

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(94)90614-9zbMATH Open1007.81537arXivhep-th/9307040OpenAlexW2084215401MaRDI QIDQ1967595FDOQ1967595

Authors: Måns Henningson 

Publication date: 6 March 2000

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

Abstract: Witten recently gave further evidence for the conjectured relationship between the $A$ series of the $N=2$ minimal models and certain Landau-Ginzburg models by computing the elliptic genus for the latter. The results agree with those of the $N=2$ minimal models, as can be calculated from the known characters of the discrete series representations of the $N=2$ superconformal algebra. The $N=2$ minimal models also have a Lagrangian representation as supersymmetric gauged WZW models. We calculate the elliptic genera, interpreted as a genus one path integral with twisted boundary conditions, for such models and recover the previously known result.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9307040

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relationship to Lie algebras and finite simple groups (11F22) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Miscellaneous applications of number theory (11Z05) Elliptic genera (58J26)

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• Heterotic coset models and (0,2) string vacua
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