Gauged sigma-models with nonclosed 3-form and twisted Jacobi structures

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2020)173zbMATH Open1456.81406arXiv2007.08951MaRDI QIDQ2658201FDOQ2658201

Authors: Athanasios Chatzistavrakidis, Grgur Šimunić 

Publication date: 18 March 2021

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study aspects of two-dimensional nonlinear sigma models with Wess-Zumino term corresponding to a nonclosed 3-form, which may arise upon dimensional reduction in the target space. Our goal in this paper is twofold. In a first part, we investigate the conditions for consistent gauging of sigma models in the presence of a nonclosed 3-form. In the Abelian case, we find that the target of the gauged theory has the structure of a contact Courant algebroid, twisted by a 3-form and two 2-forms. Gauge invariance constrains the theory to (small) Dirac structures of the contact Courant algebroid. In the non-Abelian case, we draw a similar parallel between the gauged sigma model and certain transitive Courant algebroids and their corresponding Dirac structures. In the second part of the paper, we study two-dimensional sigma models related to Jacobi structures. The latter generalise Poisson and contact geometry in the presence of an additional vector field. We demonstrate that one can construct a sigma model whose gauge symmetry is controlled by a Jacobi structure, and moreover we twist the model by a 3-form. This construction is then the analogue of WZW-Poisson structures for Jacobi manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08951

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zbMATH Keywords

differential and algebraic geometrygauge symmetrysigma modelstopological field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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