Published January 25, 1988
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Journal article
Super characters and chiral asymmetry in superconformal field theory
Description
The super partition function of two-dimensional superconformal field theory on the super torus is analyzed. Its bottom component is the integer index of the Ramond representation. The top component measures chiral asymmetry in the Ramond sector. It is a sesquilinear form in the odd 'super characters' of the Ramond algebra. Formulas for the characters are derived for the irreducible unitary highest weight representations. Modular invariance introduces constraints on the chiral asymmetry which can be satisfied for all models in the discrete series. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nucl. Phys. B, Part. Phys.
- Journal Volume
- 296
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Series
- Nucl. Phys. B, Part. Phys.
- Journal Page Range
- 779-799
- ISSN
- 0550-3213
- CODEN
- NUPBB
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 19033873
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ASYMMETRY; CHIRAL SYMMETRY; CHIRALITY; COMMUTATION RELATIONS; CONFORMAL GROUPS; CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; FIELD THEORIES; GRADED LIE GROUPS; IRREDUCIBLE REPRESENTATIONS; LIE GROUPS; MULTIPLICITY; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; SUPERSYMMETRY; SYMMETRY BREAKING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- FUNCTIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY GROUPS
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Contract PHY-86-20266; Grant DE-FG02-84ER45144