BPS and non-BPS states in a supersymmetric Landau-Ginzburg theory

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2003/01/053zbMATH Open1226.81274arXivhep-th/0208070OpenAlexW3102480211MaRDI QIDQ648779FDOQ648779

Authors: Alin Tirziu, Paul Fendley 

Publication date: 29 November 2011

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

Abstract: We analyze the spectrum of the N=(2,2) supersymmetric Landau-Ginzburg theory in two dimensions with superpotential W=X^{n+2}-lambda X^2. We find the full BPS spectrum of this theory by exploiting the direct connection between the UV and IR limits of the theory. The computation utilizes results from the Picard-Lefschetz theory of singularities and its extension to boundary singularities. The additional fact that this theory is integrable requires that the BPS states do not close under scattering. This observation fixes the masses of non-BPS states as well.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0208070

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Deformations of complex singularities; vanishing cycles (32S30)

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