Topological Dirac Sigma Models and the Classical Master Equation

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/ACB09AzbMATH Open1519.81458arXiv2206.14258MaRDI QIDQ6403452FDOQ6403452

Larisa Jonke, Grgur Šimunić, Thomas Strobl, Athanasios Chatzistavrakidis

Publication date: 28 June 2022

Abstract: We present the construction of the classical Batalin-Vilkovisky action for topological Dirac sigma models. The latter are two-dimensional topological field theories that simultaneously generalise the completely gauged Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten model and the Poisson sigma model. Their underlying structure is that of Dirac manifolds associated to maximal isotropic and integrable subbundles of an exact Courant algebroid twisted by a 3-form. In contrast to the Poisson sigma model, the AKSZ construction is not applicable for the general Dirac sigma model. We therefore follow a direct approach for determining a suitable BV extension of the classical action functional with ghosts and antifields satisfying the classical master equation. Special attention is paid on target space covariance, which requires the introduction of two connections with torsion on the Dirac structure.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) (p)-spaces, (M)-spaces, (sigma)-spaces, etc. (54E18)

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