Wess–Zumino sigma models with non-Kählerian geometry

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/23/014MaRDI QIDQ4464378zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kellogg Stelle, Antoine van Proeyen

Publication date 27 May 2004

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0306244

zbMATH Keywords

Batalin-Vilkovisky formalismtarget spacetorsionfree holomorphic connectionWess-Zumino sigma models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian structures (53B35) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: Supersymmetry of the Wess-Zumino (N=1, D=4) multiplet allows field equations that determine a larger class of geometries than the familiar Kahler manifolds, in which covariantly holomorphic vectors rather than a scalar superpotential determine the forces. Indeed, relaxing the requirement that the field equations be derivable from an action leads to complex flat geometry. The Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism is used to show that if one requires that the field equations be derivable from an action, we once again recover the restriction to Kahler geometry, with forces derived from a scalar superpotential.

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