TY - JOUR
T1 - Minimal unitary representation of D(2,1;?) and its SU(2) deformations and d=1, N=4 superconformal models
AU - Govil, Karan
AU - Gunaydin, Murat
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grants numbered PHY-1213183 and PHY-0855356 . Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
PY - 2013/4/1
Y1 - 2013/4/1
N2 - Quantization of the geometric quasiconformal realizations of noncompact groups and supergroups leads directly to their minimal unitary representations (minreps). Using quasiconformal methods massless unitary supermultiplets of superconformal groups SU(2,2|N) and OSp(8?|2n) in four and six dimensions were constructed as minreps and their U(1) and SU(2) deformations, respectively. In this paper we extend these results to SU(2) deformations of the minrep of N=4 superconformal algebra D(2,1;?) in one dimension. We find that SU(2) deformations can be achieved using n pair of bosons and m pairs of fermions simultaneously. The generators of deformed minimal representations of D(2,1;?) commute with the generators of a dual superalgebra OSp(2n?|2m) realized in terms of these bosons and fermions. We show that there exists a precise mapping between symmetry generators of N=4 superconformal models in harmonic superspace studied recently and minimal unitary supermultiplets of D(2,1;?) deformed by a pair of bosons. This can be understood as a particular case of a general mapping between the spectra of quantum mechanical quaternionic Kähler sigma models with eight super symmetries and minreps of their isometry groups that descends from the precise mapping established between the 4. d, N=2 sigma models coupled to supergravity and minreps of their isometry groups.
AB - Quantization of the geometric quasiconformal realizations of noncompact groups and supergroups leads directly to their minimal unitary representations (minreps). Using quasiconformal methods massless unitary supermultiplets of superconformal groups SU(2,2|N) and OSp(8?|2n) in four and six dimensions were constructed as minreps and their U(1) and SU(2) deformations, respectively. In this paper we extend these results to SU(2) deformations of the minrep of N=4 superconformal algebra D(2,1;?) in one dimension. We find that SU(2) deformations can be achieved using n pair of bosons and m pairs of fermions simultaneously. The generators of deformed minimal representations of D(2,1;?) commute with the generators of a dual superalgebra OSp(2n?|2m) realized in terms of these bosons and fermions. We show that there exists a precise mapping between symmetry generators of N=4 superconformal models in harmonic superspace studied recently and minimal unitary supermultiplets of D(2,1;?) deformed by a pair of bosons. This can be understood as a particular case of a general mapping between the spectra of quantum mechanical quaternionic Kähler sigma models with eight super symmetries and minreps of their isometry groups that descends from the precise mapping established between the 4. d, N=2 sigma models coupled to supergravity and minreps of their isometry groups.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2012.12.006
DO - 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2012.12.006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84871930100
SN - 0550-3213
VL - 869
SP - 111
EP - 130
JO - Nuclear Physics B
JF - Nuclear Physics B
IS - 1
ER -