Curvature constraints in heterotic Landau-Ginzburg models
Abstract
In this paper, we study a class of heterotic Landau-Ginzburg models. We show that the action can be written as a sum of BRST-exact and non-exact terms. The non-exact terms involve the pullback of the complexified Kahler form to the worldsheet and terms arising from the superpotential, which is a Grassmann-odd holomorphic function of the superfields. We then demonstrate that the action is invariant on-shell under supersymmetry transformations up to a total derivative. Finally, we extend the analysis to the case in which the superpotential is not holomorphic. In this case, we find that supersymmetry imposes a constraint which relates the nonholomorphic parameters of the superpotential to the Hermitian curvature. Various special cases of this constraint have previously been used to establish properties of Mathai-Quillen form analogues which arise in the corresponding heterotic Landau-Ginzburg models. There, it was claimed that supersymmetry imposes those constraints. Our goal in this paper is to support that claim. The analysis for the nonholomorphic case also reveals a constraint imposed by supersymmetry that we did not anticipate from studies of Mathai-Quillen form analogues.
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@article{arxiv.1912.01552,
title = {Curvature constraints in heterotic Landau-Ginzburg models},
author = {Richard S. Garavuso},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.01552},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
9 pages, no figures, uses an edited version of jheppub.sty. v3: Title change and corresponding changes in the abstract, section 1, section 2, and section 3; minor improvements in the first paragraph of section 3; corrections to various arguments in subsection 3.2 and section 4 with corresponding changes in the abstract. v2: Minor improvements