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

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVD.68.045006zbMATH Open1244.81043arXivhep-th/0304003WikidataQ125698125 ScholiaQ125698125MaRDI QIDQ2903587FDOQ2903587

Authors: Andrei S. Losev, M. A. Shifman 

Publication date: 10 August 2012

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

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}.

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

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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)

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