Twisting pure spinor superfields, with applications to supergravity

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2024.V20.N2.A2arXiv2106.15639OpenAlexW3173947499MaRDI QIDQ6131262FDOQ6131262

Authors: Ingmar A. Saberi, Brian R. Williams 

Publication date: 4 April 2024

Published in: Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study twists of supergravity theories and supersymmetric field theories, using a version of the pure spinor superfield formalism. Our results show that, just as the component fields of supersymmetric multiplets are the vector bundles associated to the equivariant Koszul homology of the variety of square-zero elements in the supersymmetry algebra, the component fields of the holomorphic twists of the corresponding multiplets are the holomorphic vector bundles associated to the equivariant Koszul homology of square-zero elements in the twisted supersymmetry algebra. The BRST or BV differentials of the free multiplet are induced by the brackets of the corresponding super Lie algebra in each case. We make this precise in a variety of examples; applications include rigorous computations of the minimal twists of eleven-dimensional and type IIB supergravity, in the free perturbative limit. The latter result proves a conjecture by Costello and Li, relating the IIB multiplet directly to a presymplectic BV version of minimal BCOV theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.15639

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zbMATH Keywords

Lie superalgebrasMaurer-Cartan equationsnilpotence varietytwisted supersymmetry and supergravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Formal methods and deformations in algebraic geometry (14D15) Homological methods in Lie (super)algebras (17B55) Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Supergravity (83E50)

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