Quantum theory of massless (p, 0)-forms

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2011)018zbMATH Open1301.81101arXiv1107.3661MaRDI QIDQ480615FDOQ480615

Fiorenzo Bastianelli, Roberto Bonezzi

Publication date: 8 December 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe the quantum theory of massless (p,0)-forms that satisfy a suitable holomorphic generalization of the free Maxwell equations on Kaehler spaces. These equations arise by first-quantizing a spinning particle with a U(1)-extended local supersymmetry on the worldline. Dirac quantization of the spinning particle produces a physical Hilbert space made up of (p,0)-forms that satisfy holomorphic Maxwell equations coupled to the background Kaehler geometry, containing in particular a charge that measures the amount of coupling to the U(1) part of the U(d) holonomy group of the d-dimensional Kaehler space. The relevant differential operators appearing in these equations are a twisted exterior holomorphic derivative and its hermitian conjugate (twisted Dolbeault operators with charge q). The particle model is used to obtain a worldline representation of the one-loop effective action of the (p,0)-forms. This representation allows to compute the first few heat kernel coefficients contained in the local expansion of the effective action and to derive duality relations between (p,0) and (d-p-2,0)-forms that include a topological mismatch appearing at one-loop.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.3661

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zbMATH Keywords

duality in gauge field theoriessigma models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kähler manifolds (32Q15) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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