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Generalized Kahler manifolds and off-shell supersymmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-26 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We solve the long standing problem of finding an off-shell supersymmetric formulation for a general N = (2, 2) nonlinear two dimensional sigma model. Geometrically the problem is equivalent to proving the existence of special coordinates; these correspond to particular superfields that allow for a superspace description. We construct and explain the geometric significance of the generalized Kahler potential for any generalized Kahler manifold; this potential is the superspace Lagrangian.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0512164,
  title  = {Generalized Kahler manifolds and off-shell supersymmetry},
  author = {Ulf Lindstrom and Martin Rocek and Rikard von Unge and Maxim Zabzine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0512164},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

21 pages; references clarified and added; theorem generalized; typos corrected