Super Chern-Simons theory and flat super connections on a torus

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2001.V5.N2.A2zbMATH Open1012.81033arXivmath-ph/0008006OpenAlexW2963828875MaRDI QIDQ699571FDOQ699571

Authors: A. Miković, Roger Picken 

Publication date: 26 June 2003

Published in: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the moduli space of a super Chern-Simons theory on a manifold with the topology $$, where $S$ is a compact surface. The moduli space is that of flat super connections modulo gauge transformations on $S$, and we study in detail the case when $S$ is atorus and the supergroup is $OSp(m|2n)$. The bosonic moduli space is determined by the flat connections for the maximal bosonic subgroup $O(m)imesSp(2n)$, while the fermionic moduli appear only for special parts of the bosonic moduli space, which are determined by a vanishing determinant of a matrix associated to the bosonic part of the holonomy. If the CS supergroup is the exponential of a super Lie algebra, the fermionic moduli appear only for the bosonic holonomies whose generators have zero determinant in the fermion-fermion block of the super-adjoint representation. A natural symplectic structure on the moduli space is induced by the super Chern-Simons theory and it is determined by the Poisson bracket algebra of the holonomies. We show that the symplectic structure of homogenous connections is useful for understanding the properties of the moduli space and the holonomy algebra, and we illustrate this on the example of the $OSp(1|2)$ supergroup.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0008006

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zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacesuper Lie algebrabosonic holonomiesdeterminedsymplectic structure of homogeneous connections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

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