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Locally supersymmetric D=3 non-linear sigma models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1

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 F4(20)F_{4(-20)}, E6(14)E_{6(-14)}, E7(5)E_{7(-5)} and E16(+8)E_{16(+8)}, respectively. For N=3N=3 and N5N\geq5 the D=2D=2 theories obtained by dimensional reduction are two-loop finite.

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@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}
}

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35 pages plain tex, CERN-TH.6612/92 THU-92-18

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