SUPERCONFORMAL SIGMA-MODELS IN HIGHER THAN 2 DIMENSIONS Academic Article

abstract

• Rigidly superconformal sigma models in higher than two dimensions are constructed. These models rely on the existence of conformal Killing spinors on the (p + 1)-dimensional worldvolume (p 5), and homothetic conformal Killing vectors in the d-dimensional target space. In the bosonic case, substituting into the action a particular form of the target space metric admitting such Killing vectors, we obtain an action with mainfest worldvolume conformal symmetry, which describes the coupling of d - 1 scalars to a conformally flat metric on the worldvolume. We also construct gauged sigma models with worldvolume conformal supersymmetry. The models considered here are generalizations of the singleton actions on SP S1, constructed some time ago by Nicolai and these authors. 1995.

authors

• Sezgin, Ergin

published proceedings

• NUCLEAR PHYSICS B

author list (cited authors)

• SEZGIN, E., & TANII, Y.

citation count

• 21

complete list of authors

• SEZGIN, E||TANII, Y

publication date

• June 1995

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Nuclear Physics B  Journal

keywords

• 49 Mathematical Sciences
• 4902 Mathematical Physics
• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5107 Particle And High Energy Physics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/0550-3213(95)00081-3

URI

• https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/181457

start page

• 70

end page

• 84

volume

• 443

issue

• 1-2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(95)00081-3