On isometry anomalies in minimal N=(0,1) and N=(0,2) sigma models

DOI10.1142/S0217751X16501475MaRDI QIDQ5507437zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jin Chen, Xiaoyi Cui, M. A. Shifman, A. Vainshtein

Publication date 19 December 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04324

zbMATH Keywords

anomalieschiral symmetriesisometrynonlinear sigma modelssupersymmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: The two-dimensional minimal supersymmetric sigma models with homogeneous target spaces $G/H$ and chiral fermions of the same chirality are revisited. We demonstrate that the Moore-Nelson consistency condition revealing a global anomaly in CP(N-1) (with N>2 and $mathcalN=(0,2)$ supersymmetry) due to a nontrivial first Pontryagin class is in one-to-one correspondence with the local anomalies of isometries in these models. These latter anomalies are generated by fermion loop diagrams which we explicitly calculate. In the case of O}(N) sigma models the first Pontryagin class vanishes, so there is no global obstruction for the minimal $mathcalN=(0,1)$ supersymmetrization of these models. We show that at the local level isometries in these models are anomaly free. Thus, there are no obstructions to quantizing the minimal $mathcalN=(0,1)$ models with the $S^{N-1}=SO(N)/SO(N-1)$ target space. This also includes CP(1) (equivalent to $S^2$) which is an exceptional case from the CP(N-1) series. We also discuss a relation between the geometric and gauged formulations of the CP}(N-1) models.

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