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Dynamical Description of Spectral Flow in N=2 Superconformal Field Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-07-19 v1

Abstract

We show how the spectral flow between the Neveu-Schwarz and Ramond sectors of N=2 superconformal field theories can be described in three dimensions in terms of the propagation of charged particles coupled to a a Chern-Simons gauge theory. Quantum mechanical mixing between the degenerate Chern-Simons vacua interpolates between the different boundary conditions of the two sectors and so provides a dynamical picture for the GSO-projection.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9702088,
  title  = {Dynamical Description of Spectral Flow in N=2 Superconformal Field Theories},
  author = {Leith Cooper and Ian I. Kogan and Richard J. Szabo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9702088},
  year   = {2011}
}

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20 pages, LaTeX, no figures