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Excited-state energies and supersymmetric indices

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-02-03 v2

Abstract

We study multi-soliton states in two-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric theories. We calculate their energy exactly as a function of mass and volume in the simplest integrable N=2 theory, the sine-Gordon model at a particular coupling. These energies are related to the expectation value I=tr[exp(inπF)exp(H/T)]I= tr [\exp(in\pi F) \exp(-H/T)], where F is the fermion number. For n=1, this is Witten's index; for n an odd integer, we argue that II is an index in the sense that it is independent of all D-term variations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9706161,
  title  = {Excited-state energies and supersymmetric indices},
  author = {Paul Fendley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9706161},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

20 pages, 6 figures, amslatex. Revision adds appendix describing analogous calculation for a free Dirac fermion. To appear in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics