Anomalies of minimal { \mathcal N }=(0,1) and { \mathcal N }=(0,2) sigma models on homogeneous spaces

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/50/2/025401MaRDI QIDQ2958593zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jin Chen, Xiaoyi Cui, M. A. Shifman, A. Vainshtein

Publication date 3 February 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.08276

zbMATH Keywords

holonomyhomogeneous spacesisometryanomaliesnonlinear sigma modelschiral fermionsgauge formulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Homogeneous spaces and generalizations (14M17)

Abstract: We study chiral anomalies in $mathcalN=(0,1)$ and $(0,2)$ two-dimensional minimal sigma models defined on generic homogeneous spaces $G/H$. Such minimal theories contain only (left) chiral fermions and in certain cases are inconsistent because of "incurable" anomalies. We explicitly calculate the anomalous fermionic effective action and show how to remedy it by adding a series of local counter-terms. In this procedure, we derive a local anomaly matching condition, which is demonstrated to be equivalent to the well-known global topological constraint on $p_1(G/H)$. More importantly, we show that these local counter-terms further modify and constrain "curable" chiral models, some of which, for example, flow to nontrivial infrared superconformal fixed point. Finally, we also observe an interesting relation between $mathcalN=(0,1)$ and $(0,2)$ two-dimensional minimal sigma models and supersymmetric gauge theories. This paper generalizes and extends the results of our previous publication arXiv:1510.04324.

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