The WZNW model on PSU(1,1|2)

Gotz, Gerhard; Quella, Thomas; Schomerus, Volker

doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/003

The WZNW model on PSU(1,1|2)

Gerhard Gotz
(
- Saclay, SPhT
)
,
Thomas Quella
(
- King's Coll. London and
- Amsterdam U., Inst. Math.
)
,
Volker Schomerus
(
- Saclay, SPhT and
- DESY
)

Oct, 2006

59 pages

Published in:

JHEP 03 (2007) 003

e-Print:

hep-th/0610070 [hep-th]

DOI:

10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/003

Report number:

DESY-06-147,
KCL-MTH-06-09,
SPHT-T06-049

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Abstract:

According to the work of Berkovits, Vafa and Witten (hep-th/9902098), the non-linear sigma model on the supergroup PSU(1,1|2) is the essential building block for string theory on AdS(3)xS(3)xT(4). Models associated with a non-vanishing value of the RR flux can be obtained through a psu(1,1|2) invariant marginal deformation of the WZNW model on PSU(1,1|2). We take this as a motivation to present a manifestly psu(1,1|2) covariant construction of the model at the Wess-Zumino point, corresponding to a purely NSNS background 3-form flux. At this point the model possesses an enhanced psu(1,1|2) current algebra symmetry whose representation theory, including explicit character formulas, is developed systematically in the first part of the paper. The space of vertex operators and a free fermion representation for their correlation functions is our main subject in the second part. Contrary to a widespread claim, bosonic and fermionic fields are necessarily coupled to each other. The interaction changes the supersymmetry transformations, with drastic consequences for the multiplets of localized normalizable states in the model. It is only this fact which allows us to decompose the full state space into multiplets of the global supersymmetry. We analyze these decompositions systematically as a preparation for a forthcoming study of the RR deformation.

Note:

59 pages, 2 figures, v2: a couple of typos corrected, in particular above eq. (2.26) the labels of the representations which decouple. The modifications have no affect on any of the formulas Report-no: DESY 06-147, KCL-MTH-06-09, SPhT-T06/049 Journal-ref: JHEP 0703 (2007) 003 DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/003

sigma model: nonlinear
dimension: 2
group theory: PSU(1,1|2)
Wess-Zumino-Witten model
algebra: Lie
algebra: representation
algebra: affine
ground state
spectral representation
space-time: anti-de Sitter

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