Off-shell formulation of N=2 nonlinear -models

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00103-XzbMATH Open1004.81564arXivhep-th/9610102OpenAlexW2012367029MaRDI QIDQ678317FDOQ678317

Alexander Sevrin, Jan Troost

Publication date: 16 April 1997

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

Abstract: We study d=2, N=(2,2) non-linear sigma-models in (2,2) superspace. By analyzing the most general constraints on a superfield, we show that through an appropriate choice of coordinates, there are no other superfields than chiral, twisted chiral and semi-chiral ones. We study the resulting sigma-models and we speculate on the possibility that all (2,2) non-linear sigma-models can be described using these fields. We apply the results to two examples: the SU(2) x U(1) and the SU(2) x SU(2) WZW model. Pending upon the choice of complex structures, the former can be described in terms of either one semi-chiral multiplet or a chiral and a twisted chiral multiplet. The latter is formulated in terms of one semi-chiral and one twisted chiral multiplet. For both cases we obtain the potential explicitely.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9610102

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zbMATH Keywords

SU(2)\(\times\)U(1) WZW modeltwisted chiral superfields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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