Locally supersymmetric D=3 non-linear sigma models
Abstract
We study non-linear sigma models with N local supersymmetries in three space-time dimensions. For N=1 and 2 the target space of these models is Riemannian or Kahler, respectively. All N>2 theories are associated with Einstein spaces. For N=3 the target space is quaternionic, while for N=4 it generally decomposes into two separate quaternionic spaces, associated with inequivalent supermultiplets. For N=5,6,8 there is a unique (symmetric) space for any given number of supermultiplets. Beyond that there are only theories based on a single supermultiplet for N=9,10,12 and 16, associated with coset spaces with the exceptional isometry groups , , and , respectively. For and the theories obtained by dimensional reduction are two-loop finite.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9208074,
title = {Locally supersymmetric D=3 non-linear sigma models},
author = {B. de Wit and A. K. Tollsten and H. Nicolai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9208074},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
35 pages plain tex, CERN-TH.6612/92 THU-92-18