Published April 19, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Sigma models with N=8 supersymmetries in 2+1 and 1+1 dimensions

  • 1. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Appelstrasse 2, 30167 Hannover (Germany) and Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region (Russian Federation)

Description

We introduce an N=8 supersymmetric extension of the Bogomolny-type model for Yang-Mills-Higgs fields in 2+1 dimensions related with twistor string theory. It is shown that this model is equivalent to an N=8 supersymmetric U(n) chiral model in 2+1 dimensions with a Wess-Zumino-Witten-type term. Further reduction to 1+1 dimensions yields N=(8,8) supersymmetric extensions of the standard U(n) chiral model and Grassmannian sigma models

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DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.02.057;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-th/0702106v1;
PII
S0370-2693(07)00292-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
647
Journal Issue
5-6
Journal Page Range
p. 509-514
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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