Published February 17, 1992 | Version v1
Journal article

Exact results for supersymmetric σ models

  • 1. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste (Italy)
  • 2. International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA-ISAS), Trieste (Italy)
  • 3. Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (United States)

Description

We show that the metric and Berry's curvature for the ground states of N=2 supersymmetric σ models can be computed exactly as one varies the Kahler structure. For the case of CPn these are related to special solutions to affine Toda equations. This allows us to extract exact results. We find that the ground-state metric is nonsingular as the size of the manifold shrinks to zero, suggesting that 2D quantum field theory makes sense even beyond zero radius. Thus it seems that manifolds with zero size are nonsingular as target spaces for string theory (even when they are not conformal)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
68
Journal Issue
7
Series
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Page Range
903-906
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTA