Exact N = 2 Landau-Ginzburg flows
Creators
- 1. Boston Univ., MA (United States). Dept. of Physics
- 2. Dept. of Physics, Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)
Description
We find exactly solvable N=2 supersymmetric flows whose infrared fixed points are the N=2 minimal models. The exact S-matrices and the Casimir energy (a c-function) are determined along the entire renormalization-group trajectory. The c-functions run from c=3 (asymptotically) to N=2 minimal-model values, leading us to interpret these theories as the Landau-Ginzburg models with superpotential Xk+2. The calculation of the elliptic genus is consistent with this interpretation. We also find an integrable model in this hierarchy with spontaneously broken supersymmetry and superpotential X, and a series of integrable models with (0, 2) supersymmetry. The flows exhibit interesting behavior in the UV, including a relation to the N=2 super sine-Gordon model. We speculate about the relation between the kinetic term and the cigar target-space metric. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Physics. B
- Journal Volume
- 413
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 653-674.
- ISSN
- 0550-3213
- CODEN
- NUPBBO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 25045562
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACTION INTEGRAL; ASYMPTOTIC SOLUTIONS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CASIMIR EFFECT; CHIRALITY; ENERGY DENSITY; FERMIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GINZBURG-LANDAU THEORY; GOLDSTONE BOSONS; INFRARED DIVERGENCES; KERNELS; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; METRICS; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; POTENTIALS; RENORMALIZATION; S MATRIX; SINE-GORDON EQUATION; SPARTICLES; SUPERSYMMETRY; SYMMETRY BREAKING; TOPOLOGY; ULTRAVIOLET DIVERGENCES
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATIONS; INTEGRALS; MATHEMATICS; MATRICES; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SYMMETRY; TRANSFORMATIONS