Surfaces immersed in Lie algebras obtained from the sigma models

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DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/29/013zbMATH Open1097.53005arXivmath/0502482OpenAlexW1889485559MaRDI QIDQ5484427FDOQ5484427


Authors: A. Strasburger, A. Michel Grundland, Wojciech J. Zakrzewski Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 17 August 2006

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

Abstract: We study some geometrical aspects of two dimensional orientable surfaces arrising from the study of CP^N sigma models. To this aim we employ an identification of R^(N(N+2)) with the Lie algebra su(N+1) by means of which we construct a generalized Weierstrass formula for immersion of such surfaces. The structural elements of the surface like its moving frame, the Gauss-Weingarten and the Gauss-Codazzi-Ricci equations are expressed in terms of the solution of the CP^N model defining it. Further, the first and second fundamental forms, the Gaussian curvature, the mean curvature vector, the Willmore functional and the topological charge of surfaces are expressed in terms of this solution. We present detailed implementation of these results for surfaces immersed in su(2) and su(3) Lie algebras.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0502482




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