Transformations of Currents in Sigma-Models with Target Space Supersymmetry

We develop a framework for the systematic study of symmetry transformations of sigma-model currents in a special situation, when symmetries have a well-defined projection onto the target space. We then apply this formalism to pure spinor sigma-models, and describe the resulting geometric structures...

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Veröffentlicht in:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Datum:2024
Hauptverfasser: Bernardes, Vinicius, Mikhailov, Andrei, Viana, Eggon
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Veröffentlicht: Інститут математики НАН України 2024
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description We develop a framework for the systematic study of symmetry transformations of sigma-model currents in a special situation, when symmetries have a well-defined projection onto the target space. We then apply this formalism to pure spinor sigma-models, and describe the resulting geometric structures in the target space (which in our approach includes the pure spinor ghosts). We perform a detailed study of the transformation properties of currents, using the formalism of equivariant cohomology. We clarify the descent procedure for the ''universal'' deformation corresponding to changing the overall scale of the worldsheet action. We also study the contact terms in the OPE of BRST currents, and derive some relations between currents and vertex operators which perhaps have not been previously acknowledged. We also clarify the geometrical meaning of the ''minimalistic'' BV action for pure spinors in AdS.
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Viana, Eggon
2026-01-30T08:16:17Z
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Transformations of Currents in Sigma-Models with Target Space Supersymmetry. Vinicius Bernardes, Andrei Mikhailov and Eggon Viana. SIGMA 20 (2024), 031, 27 pages
1815-0659
2020 Mathematics Subject Classification: 83E30; 17B55; 55N25; 70S10
arXiv:2303.14181
https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/212164
https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2024.031
We develop a framework for the systematic study of symmetry transformations of sigma-model currents in a special situation, when symmetries have a well-defined projection onto the target space. We then apply this formalism to pure spinor sigma-models, and describe the resulting geometric structures in the target space (which in our approach includes the pure spinor ghosts). We perform a detailed study of the transformation properties of currents, using the formalism of equivariant cohomology. We clarify the descent procedure for the ''universal'' deformation corresponding to changing the overall scale of the worldsheet action. We also study the contact terms in the OPE of BRST currents, and derive some relations between currents and vertex operators which perhaps have not been previously acknowledged. We also clarify the geometrical meaning of the ''minimalistic'' BV action for pure spinors in AdS.
We want to thank the referees for helping us to improve the paper, in particular for pointing out errors in the original version. This work was supported in part by the ICTP-SAIFR FAPESP grant 2019/21281-4. The work of VB was supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic under the grant EXPRO 20-25775X. The work of AM was supported in part by CNPq grant “Produtividade em Pesquisa” 307191/2022-2. The work of EV was supported by FAPESP grant 2022/00940-2.
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Інститут математики НАН України
Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Transformations of Currents in Sigma-Models with Target Space Supersymmetry
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spellingShingle Transformations of Currents in Sigma-Models with Target Space Supersymmetry
Bernardes, Vinicius
Mikhailov, Andrei
Viana, Eggon
title Transformations of Currents in Sigma-Models with Target Space Supersymmetry
title_full Transformations of Currents in Sigma-Models with Target Space Supersymmetry
title_fullStr Transformations of Currents in Sigma-Models with Target Space Supersymmetry
title_full_unstemmed Transformations of Currents in Sigma-Models with Target Space Supersymmetry
title_short Transformations of Currents in Sigma-Models with Target Space Supersymmetry
title_sort transformations of currents in sigma-models with target space supersymmetry
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