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Target space supergeometry of $\eta$ and $\lambda$-deformed strings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-11-03 v3

Abstract

We study the integrable η\eta and λ\lambda-deformations of supercoset string sigma models, the basic example being the deformation of the AdS5×S5AdS_5 \times S^5 superstring. We prove that the kappa symmetry variations for these models are of the standard Green-Schwarz form, and we determine the target space supergeometry by computing the superspace torsion. We check that the λ\lambda-deformation gives rise to a standard (generically type II*) supergravity background; for the η\eta-model the requirement that the target space is a supergravity solution translates into a simple condition on the R-matrix which enters the definition of the deformation. We further construct all such non-abelian R-matrices of rank four which solve the homogeneous classical Yang-Baxter equation for the algebra so(2,4). We argue that the corresponding backgrounds are equivalent to sequences of non-commuting TsT-transformations, and verify this explicitly for some of the examples.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1608.03570,
  title  = {Target space supergeometry of $\eta$ and $\lambda$-deformed strings},
  author = {Riccardo Borsato and Linus Wulff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.03570},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

32 pages. Remarks of referee addressed: references and comments added. Published version

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