Killing vector fields and harmonic superfield theories

DOI10.1063/1.4895464zbMATH Open1310.81140arXiv1301.5474OpenAlexW3104597844MaRDI QIDQ2924907FDOQ2924907

Authors: Josua Groeger 

Publication date: 20 October 2014

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The harmonic action functional allows a natural generalisation to semi-Riemannian supergeometry, referred to as superharmonic action, which resembles the supersymmetric sigma models studied in high energy physics. We show that Killing vector fields are infinitesimal supersymmetries of the superharmonic action and prove three different Noether theorems in this context. En passant, we provide a homogeneous treatment of five characterisations of Killing vector fields on semi-Riemannian supermanifolds, thus filling a gap in the literature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.5474

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zbMATH Keywords

Noether theoremsupermanifoldssupersymmetric sigma models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Functional analysis on superspaces (supermanifolds) or graded spaces (46S60) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Supermanifolds and graded manifolds (58A50)

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