N=2 sigma models for Ramond-Ramond backgrounds


Autoria(s): Berkovits, N.
Contribuinte(s)

Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)

Data(s)

20/05/2014

20/05/2014

01/10/2002

Resumo

Using the U(4) hybrid formalism, manifestly N = (2,2) worldsheet supersymmetric sigma models are constructed for the type-IIB superstring in Ramond-Ramond backgrounds. The Kahler potential in these N = 2 sigma models depends on four chiral and antichiral bosonic superfields and two chiral and antichiral fermionic superfields. When the Kahler potential is quadratic, the model is a free conformal field theory which describes a flat ten-dimensional target space with Ramond-Ramond flux and non-constant dilaton. For more general Kahler potentials, the model describes curved target spaces with Ramond-Ramond flux that are not plane-wave backgrounds. Ricci-flatness of the Kahler metric implies the on-shell conditions for the background up to the usual four-loop conformal anomaly.

Formato

17

Identificador

http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0210078

Journal of High Energy Physics. Trieste: Int School Advanced Studies, n. 10, 17 p., 2002.

1029-8479

http://hdl.handle.net/11449/23132

WOS:000180552900071

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Int School Advanced Studies

Relação

Journal of High Energy Physics

Direitos

openAccess

Palavras-Chave #superstrings and heterotic strings #Penrose limit and pp-wave background
Tipo

info:eu-repo/semantics/article