N=4 mechanics of general (4,4,0) multiplets

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DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.10.016zbMATH Open1229.81275arXiv1107.1429OpenAlexW1936071150MaRDI QIDQ659440FDOQ659440

Evgeny Ivanov, F. Delduc

Publication date: 18 January 2012

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct the manifestly N=4 supersymmetric off-shell superfield "master" action for any number n of the N=4 supermultiplets (4, 4, 0) described by harmonic analytic superfields q^{+a}(zeta, u), a= 1, ... 2n, subjected to the most general harmonic constraints. The action consists of the sigma-model and Wess-Zumino parts. We present the general expressions for the target space metric, torsion and background gauge fields. The generic target space geometry is shown to be weak HKT (hyper-K"ahler with torsion), with the strong HKT and HK ones as particular cases. The background gauge fields obey the self-duality condition. Our formulation suggests that the weak HKT geometry is fully specified by the two primary potentials: an unconstrained scalar potential {cal L}(q^+, q^-, u)|_{ heta = 0} which is the heta = 0 projection of the superfield sigma-model Lagrangian, and a charge 3 harmonic analytic potential {cal L}^{+ 3a}(q^+, u)|_{ heta = 0} coming from the harmonic constraint on q^{+ a}. The reductions to the strong HKT and HK geometries amount to simple restrictions on the underlying potentials. We also show, using the N=2 superfield approach, that the most general bosonic target geometry of the N=4, d=1 sigma models, of which the weak HKT geometry is a particular case, naturally comes out after adding the mirror (4, 4, 0) multiplets with different transformation laws under N=4 supersymmetry and SO(4) R symmetry. Thus the minimal dimension of the target spaces exhibiting such a "weakest" geometry is 8, which corresponds to a pair of the mutually mirror (4, 4, 0) multiplets.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.1429




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