Published March 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Vacua of massive hyper-Kaehler sigma models with non-Abelian quotient

  • 1. Institute of Physics, AS CR, Praha (Czech Republic)
  • 2. Dept. of Physics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
  • 3. Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Dept. of Physics, Tokyo (Japan)

Description

The Higgs branch of N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories with non-Abelian gauge groups is described by hyper-Kaehler (HK) nonlinear sigma models with potential terms. Using the non-Abelian HK quotient with respect to U(M) and SU(M) gauge groups, we derive the massive HK sigma models that are not toric in the N=1 superfield formalism and the harmonic superspace formalism. The U(M) quotient gives N!/[M!(N - M)!] discrete vacua that may allow various types of domain walls, whereas the SU(M) quotient gives no discrete vacua. (author)

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Journal Title
Progress of Theoretical Physics (Kyoto)
Journal Volume
113
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 657-685
ISSN
0033-068X

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Notes
50 refs., 1 fig.