English

N=4 mechanics, WDVV equations and roots

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-03-27 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

N=4 superconformal multi-particle quantum mechanics on the real line is governed by two prepotentials, U and F, which obey a system of partial differential equations linear in U and generalizing the Witten-Dijkgraaf-Verlinde-Verlinde (WDVV) equation for F. Putting U=0 yields a class of models (with zero central charge) which are encoded by the finite Coxeter root systems. We extend these WDVV solutions F in two ways: the A_n system is deformed n-parametrically to the edge set of a general orthocentric n-simplex, and the BCF-type systems form one-parameter families. A classification strategy is proposed. A nonzero central charge requires turning on U in a given F background, which we show is outside of reach of the standard root-system ansatz for indecomposable systems of more than three particles. In the three-body case, however, this ansatz can be generalized to establish a series of nontrivial models based on the dihedral groups I_2(p), which are permutation symmetric if 3 divides p. We explicitly present their full prepotentials.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0802.4386,
  title  = {N=4 mechanics, WDVV equations and roots},
  author = {Anton Galajinsky and Olaf Lechtenfeld and Kirill Polovnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.4386},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

1+25 pages; v2: major revision (more general analysis, new solutions, additional references); v3: improvements in sects.5,8,9, refs. added

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