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Comments on N=(2,2) Supersymmetry on Two-Manifolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-19 v3

Abstract

We study curved-space rigid supersymmetry for two-dimensional N=(2,2)\mathcal{N}=(2,2) supersymmetric fields theories with a vector-like RR-symmetry by coupling such theories to background supergravity. The associated Killing spinors can be viewed as holomorphic sections of particular complex line bundles over Euclidean space-time, which severely restrict the allowed supersymmetric couplings on compact orientable Riemann surfaces without boundaries. For genus g>1g>1, the only consistent non-singular couplings are the ones dictated by the topological AA-twist. On spaces with S2S^2 topology, there exist additional supersymmetric backgrounds with m=0m=0 or ±1\pm 1 unit of flux for the RR-symmetry gauge field. The m=1m=-1 case includes the Ω\Omega-background on the sphere. We also systematically work out the curved-space supersymmetry multiplets and supersymmetric Lagrangians.

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@article{arxiv.1404.2636,
  title  = {Comments on N=(2,2) Supersymmetry on Two-Manifolds},
  author = {Cyril Closset and Stefano Cremonesi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.2636},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

38 pages+appendix; v2: new section 6.10 on NLSM Lagrangians; v3: corrected typos and added references

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