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Exact classical solutions of nonlinear sigma models on supermanifolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Mathematical Physics math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

We study two-dimensional nonlinear sigma models with target spaces being the complex super Grassmannian manifolds, that is, coset supermanifolds G(m,pn,q)U(mn)/[U(pq)U(mpnq)]G(m,p|n,q)\cong U(m|n)/[U(p|q)\otimes U(m-p|n-q)] for 0pm0\leq p \leq m, 0qn0\leq q \leq n and 1p+q1\leq p+q. The projective superspace CPm1n{\bf CP}^{m-1|n} is a special case of p=1p=1, q=0q=0. For the two-dimensional Euclidean base space, a wide class of exact classical solutions (or harmonic maps) are constructed explicitly and elementarily in terms of Gramm-Schmidt orthonormalisation procedure starting from holomorphic bosonic and fermionic supervector input functions. The construction is a generalisation of the non-super case published more than twenty years ago by one of the present authors.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0612154,
  title  = {Exact classical solutions of nonlinear sigma models on supermanifolds},
  author = {Ryu Sasaki and Wen-Li Yang and Yao-Zhong Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0612154},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Latex file, 17 pages; V2, typos corrected, this version will appear in Nucl. Phys. B