Superspace WZW models and black holes

Conference · Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5926770

Rocek, M ^[1]; Ahn, C; Schoutens, K ^[2]; Sevrin, A ^[3]

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1. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (United States). School of Natural Sciences
2. State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY (United States). Inst. for Theoretical Physics
3. Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)

We show how to write an off-shell action for the SU(2) x U(1) supersymmetric WZW model in terms of N = 2 chiral and twisted chiral multiplets. We discuss the N = 4 supersymmetry of this model and exhibit the N = 4 superconformal current algebra. Finally, we show that the off-shell formulation makes it possible to perform a duality transformation, which leads to a supersymmetric sigma model on a manifold with a black hole type singularity. 23 refs.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 5926770
• Report Number(s): LBL-31325; IASSNS-HEP-91/69; ITP-SB-91-49; UCB-PTH-91/50; CONF-9108185-1; ON: DE92004169
• Resource Relation: Conference: Workshop on superstrings and related topics, Trieste (Italy), Aug 1991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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