Modifying the sum over topological sectors and constraints on supergravity
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Publication:2014968
DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2010)070zbMATH Open1290.83025arXiv1005.0002WikidataQ59711175 ScholiaQ59711175MaRDI QIDQ2014968FDOQ2014968
Authors: Nathan Seiberg 
Publication date: 17 June 2014
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: The standard lore about the sum over topological sectors in quantum field theory is that locality and cluster decomposition uniquely determine the sum over such sectors, thus leading to the usual theta-vacua. We show that without changing the local degrees of freedom, a theory can be modified such that the sum over instantons should be restricted; e.g. one should include only instanton numbers which are divisible by some integer p. This conclusion about the configuration space of quantum field theory allows us to carefully reconsider the quantization of parameters in supergravity. In particular, we show that FI-terms and nontrivial Kahler forms are quantized. This analysis also leads to a new derivation of recent results about linearized supergravity.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.0002
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