ON THE NATURE OF THE ANOMALIES IN THE SUPERSYMMETRIC KINK

DOI10.1142/S0217751X03017075MaRDI QIDQ4453781zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kazuo Fujikawa, Anton Rebhan, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

Publication date 7 March 2004

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0309256

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We discuss the possibility to absorb all anomalies in the supersymmetry algebra of the N=(1,1) Wess-Zumino model in d=1+1 by a local counter term. This counter term corresponds to the change of the vacuum parameter $v_0^2$ in the model and the transition to an unconventional but admissible renormalization scheme. It does not modify the physical consequences such as BPS saturation, and thus the situation is rather different from gauge theory where local counter terms are required to absorb spurious gauge anomalies.

Cites work

• Energy, central charge, and the BPS bound for \(1+1\)-dimensional supersymmetric solitons
• The anomaly in the central charge of the supersymmetric kink from dimensional regularization and reduction
• Topological anomalies from the path integral measure in superspace.
• Topological boundary conditions, the BPS bound, and elimination of ambiguities in the quantum mass of solitons

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