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Quaternionic and Hyper-K\"ahler Metrics from Generalized Sigma Models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-04 v2

Abstract

The problem of finding new metrics of interest, in the context of SUGRA, is reduced to two stages: first, solving a generalized BPS sigma model with full quaternionic structure proposed by the authors and, second, constructing the hyper-K\"{a}hler metric, or suitable deformations of this condition, taking advantage of the correspondence between the quaternionic left-regular potential and the hyper-K\"{a}hler metric of the target space. As illustration, new solutions are obtained using generalized Q-sigma model for Wess-Zumino type superpotentials. Explicit solutions analog to the Berger's sphere and Abraham-Townsend type are given and generalizations of 4-dimensional quaternionic metrics, product of complex ones, are shown and discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1203.1567,
  title  = {Quaternionic and Hyper-K\"ahler Metrics from Generalized Sigma Models},
  author = {V. I. Afonso and D. Bazeia and D. J. Cirilo-Lombardo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.1567},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages, two column, no figures

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