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Scattering and Thermodynamics of Integrable N=2 Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

We study NN=2 supersymmetric integrable theories with spontaneously-broken \Zn\ symmetry. They have exact soliton masses given by the affine SU(n)SU(n) Toda masses and fractional fermion numbers given by multiples of 1/n1/n. The basic such NN=2 integrable theory is the AnA_n-type NN=2 minimal model perturbed by the most relevant operator. The soliton content and exact S-matrices are obtained using the Landau-Ginzburg description. We study the thermodynamics of these theories and calculate the ground-state energies exactly, verifying that they have the correct conformal limits. We conjecture that the soliton content and S-matrices in other integrable \Zn\ NN=2 theories are given by the tensor product of the above basic NN=2 \Zn\ scattering theory with various NN=0 theories. In particular, we consider integrable perturbations of NN=2 Kazama-Suzuki models described by generalized Chebyshev potentials, CPn1CP^{n-1} sigma models, and NN=2 sine-Gordon and its affine Toda generalizations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9202011,
  title  = {Scattering and Thermodynamics of Integrable N=2 Theories},
  author = {P. Fendley and K. Intriligator},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9202011},
  year   = {2009}
}

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31 pages