Cecotti-Fendley-Intriligator-Vafa index in a box

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2012.01.015MaRDI QIDQ447282zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. A. Shifman, A. Monin

Publication date 3 September 2012

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.7113

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) Ginzburg-Landau equations (35Q56) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: The Cecotti-Fendley-Intriligator-Vafa (CFIV) index in two-dimensional $mathcalN=(2,2)$ models is revisited. We address the problem of "elementary" (nontopological) excitations over a kink solution, in the one-kink sector (using the Wess-Zumino or Landau-Ginzburg models with two vacua as examples). In other words, we limit ourselves to the large-$$ limit. The excitation spectrum over the BPS-saturated at the classical level kink is discretized through a large box with judiciously chosen boundary conditions. The boundary conditions are designed in such a way that half of supersymmetry is preserved as well as the BPS kink itself, and relevant zero modes. The excitation spectrum acquires a mass gap. All (discretized) excited states enter in four-dimensional multiplets (two bosonic states + two fermionic). Their contribution to $mathrm{ind}_{mCFIV}$ vanishes level by level. The ground state contribution produces $|mathrm{ind}_{mCFIV}|=1$.

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