Published October 7, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Octonions and supersymmetry in three dimensions

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, 1250 Bellflower Boulevard Long Beach, CA 90840 (United States)

Description

We present two N = 1 locally supersymmetric σ-models in 3D with the seven- and eight-dimensional target spaces with the reduced G2 and Spin(7) holonomies instead of the maximal SO(7) and SO(8), respectively. It turns out that particular Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten-like terms are possible with the octonion structure constant for these σ-models. As a by-product, we show that a new N = 7 vector multiplet also exists in 3D with non-trivial interactions with the octonion structure constant. A non-trivial solution for the interacting vectorial field is also given

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/25/19/195003

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0264-9381/25/19/195003;
PII
S0264-9381(08)68551-2;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
25
Journal Issue
19
Journal Page Range
[14 p.]
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRDG

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