N=2 sigma model with a twisted mass and superpotential: central charges and solitons

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVD.68.045006MaRDI QIDQ2903587zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Andrei S. Losev, M. A. Shifman

Publication date 10 August 2012

Published in Physical Review D. Series III (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0304003

zbMATH Keywords

supersymmetric sigma models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We consider supersymmetric sigma models on the Kahler target spaces, with twisted mass. The Kahler spaces are assumed to have holomorphic Killing vectors. Introduction of a superpotential of a special type is known to be consistent with N=2 superalgebra (Alvarez-Gaume and Freedman). We show that the algebra acquires central charges in the anticommutators {Q_L, Q_L} and {Q_R, Q_R}. These central charges have no parallels, and they can exist only in two dimensions. The central extension of the N=2 superalgebra we found paves the way to a novel phenomenon -- spontaneous breaking of a part of supersymmetry. In the general case 1/2 of supersymmetry is spontaneously broken (the vacuum energy density is positive), while the remaining 1/2 is realized linearly. In the model at hand the standard fermion number is not defined, so that the Witten index as well as the Cecotti-Fendley-Intriligator-Vafa index are useless. We show how to construct an index for counting short multiplets in internal algebraic terms which is well-defined in spite of the absence of the standard fermion number. Finally, we outline derivation of the quantum anomaly in {�ar Q_L, Q_R}.

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