Published May 3, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Conformal invariance and quantum integrability of sigma models on symmetric superspaces

  • 1. Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904 (Israel) and Department of Particle Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100 (Israel)

Description

We consider two dimensional nonlinear sigma models on few symmetric superspaces, which are supergroup manifolds of coset type. For those spaces where one loop beta function vanishes, two loop beta function is calculated and is shown to be zero. Vanishing of beta function in all orders of perturbation theory is shown for the principal chiral models on group supermanifolds with zero Killing form. Sigma models on symmetric (super) spaces on supergroup manifold G/H are known to be classically integrable. We investigate a possibility to extend an argument of absence of quantum anomalies in nonlocal current conservation from nonsuper case to the case of supergroup manifolds which are asymptotically free in one loop

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.03.003;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-th/0611214v2;
PII
S0370-2693(07)00297-3;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
648
Journal Issue
2-3
Journal Page Range
p. 254-261
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.