Description of surfaces associated with C P^N-1 sigma models on Minkowski space

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2005.03.003MaRDI QIDQ2581869zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. Šnobl, A. Michel Grundland

Publication date 10 January 2006

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0405513

zbMATH Keywords

Sigma modelsStructural equations of two-dimensional surfacesSurfaces immersed in Lie-algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global submanifolds (53C40) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43)

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to construct and investigate smooth orientable surfaces in $R^{N^2-1}$ by analytical methods. The structural equations of surfaces in connection with $C{P}^{N-1}$ sigma models on Minkowski space are studied in detail. This is carried out using moving frames adapted to surfaces immersed in the $su(N)$ algebra. The first and second fundamental forms of this surface as well as the relations between them as expressed in the Gauss-Weingarten and Gauss-Codazzi-Ricci equations are found. The Gaussian curvature, the mean curvature vector and the Willmore functional expressed in terms of a solution of $C{P}^{N-1}$ sigma model are obtained. An example of a surface associated with the $C{P}^1$ model is included as an illustration of the theoretical results.

Review text

The authors study two-dimensional smooth and orientable surfaces \(F\) immersed in the Lie-algebra su\((N)\) which are associated with the \({\mathbb C} P^{N-1}\) sigma model defined on two-dimensional Minkowski space. They determine the first and the second fundamental form to \(F\) and compute the Gauss-Weingarten and the Gauss-Codazzi-Ricci equations for \(F.\) Formulae for the Gaussian curvature, the mean curvature and the Willmore functional are computed, too. Then they construct a standard representation of a moving frame of \(F\) immersed in su\((N).\) To this end they use the adjoint representation of the group SU\((N).\) This delivers a normal representation harnessing an orthogonalizing process similar to the method of Gram-Schmidt. The case \(N=2\) leads to surfaces with constant negative Gaussian curvature. An example of this type closes the paper.

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