On integrable deformations of superstring sigma models related to AdSn×SnAdS_n \times S^n supercosets

Apr 27, 2015
31 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 897 (2015) 448-478
  • Published: Jun 3, 2015
e-Print:
Report number:
  • IMPERIAL-TP-AT-2015-02,
  • HU-EP-15-21

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We consider two integrable deformations of 2d sigma models on supercosets associated with AdSn×Sn . The first, the “ η -deformation” (based on the Yang–Baxter sigma model), is a one-parameter generalization of the standard superstring action on AdSn×Sn , while the second, the “ λ -deformation” (based on the deformed gauged WZW model), is a generalization of the non-abelian T-dual of the AdSn×Sn superstring. We show that the η -deformed model may be obtained from the λ -deformed one by a special scaling limit and analytic continuation in coordinates combined with a particular identification of the parameters of the two models. The relation between the couplings and deformation parameters is consistent with the interpretation of the first model as a real quantum deformation and the second as a root of unity quantum deformation. For the AdS2×S2 case we then explore the effect of this limit on the supergravity background associated with the λ -deformed model. We also suggest that the two models may form a dual Poisson–Lie pair and provide direct evidence for this in the case of the integrable deformations of the coset associated with S2 .
Note:
  • v2: comments and references added; v3: new appendix on an alternative proposal for the dilaton and minor changes, 28 pages; v4: misprint in (B.7) corrected
  • superstring: action
  • supergravity: background
  • T-duality: nonabelian
  • deformation
  • integrability
  • sigma model
  • Wess-Zumino-Witten model
  • anti-de Sitter
  • coset space
  • Yang-Baxter