Pohlmeyer reduction of AdS₅ S^5 superstring sigma model

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DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2008.01.006zbMATH Open1292.81114arXiv0711.0155OpenAlexW2159282624MaRDI QIDQ952383FDOQ952383


Authors: Maxim Grigoriev, Arkady A. Tseytlin Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 12 November 2008

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

Abstract: Motivated by a desire to find a useful 2d Lorentz-invariant reformulation of the AdS_5 x S^5 superstring world-sheet theory in terms of physical degrees of freedom we construct the Pohlmeyer-reduced version of the corresponding sigma model. The Pohlmeyer reduction procedure involves several steps. Starting with a coset space string sigma model in the conformal gauge and writing the classical equations in terms of currents one can fix the residual conformal diffeomorphism symmetry and kappa-symmetry and introduce a new set of variables (related locally to currents but non-locally to the original string coordinate fields) so that the Virasoro constraints are automatically satisfied. The resulting gauge-fixed equations can be obtained from a Lagrangian of a non-abelian Toda type: a gauged WZW model with an integrable potential coupled also to a set of 2d fermionic fields. A gauge-fixed form of the Pohlmeyer-reduced theory can be found by integrating out the 2d gauge field of the gauged WZW model. Its small-fluctuation spectrum contains 8 bosonic and 8 fermionic degrees of freedom with equal masses. We conjecture that the reduced model has world-sheet supersymmetry and is ultraviolet-finite. We show that in the special case of the AdS_2 x S^2 superstring model the reduced theory is indeed supersymmetric: it is equivalent to the N=2 supersymmetric extension of the sine-Gordon model.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0155




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