Gauge fields on the world sheet: Strings with gauge- and supersymmetry breaking

1987 ◽  
Vol 198 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.T. Tomboulis
1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (05) ◽  
pp. 645-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. POLYAKOV

In this article old and new relations between gauge fields and strings are discussed. We add new arguments that the Yang–Mills theories must be described by the noncritical strings in the five-dimensional curved space. The physical meaning of the fifth dimension is that of the renormalization scale represented by the Liouville field. We analyze the meaning of the zigzag symmetry and show that it is likely to be present if there is a minimal supersymmetry on the world sheet. We also present the new string backgrounds which may be relevant for the description of the ordinary bosonic Yang–Mills theories. The article is written on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the IHES.


1991 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
SOUMITRA SENGUPTA ◽  
PARTHASARATHI MAJUMDAR

The possibility of soft supersymmetry breaking at the tree level of string-inspired low energy supergravity theory is investigated. It is shown that the stringy quantum effects like the world sheet instanton and string loop effects can induce soft supersymmetry breakings at the tree level of the observable sector. Generic mass terms and trilinear soft breaking terms that arise are calculated.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Chen ◽  
Chao-Hsiang Sheu ◽  
Mikhail Shifman ◽  
Gianni Tallarita ◽  
Alexei Yung

Abstract We study two-dimensional weighted $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = (2) supersymmetric ℂℙ models with the goal of exploring their infrared (IR) limit. 𝕎ℂℙ(N,$$ \tilde{N} $$ N ˜ ) are simplified versions of world-sheet theories on non-Abelian strings in four-dimensional $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 QCD. In the gauged linear sigma model (GLSM) formulation, 𝕎ℂℙ(N,$$ \tilde{N} $$ N ˜ ) has N charges +1 and $$ \tilde{N} $$ N ˜ charges −1 fields. As well-known, at $$ \tilde{N} $$ N ˜ = N this GLSM is conformal. Its target space is believed to be a non-compact Calabi-Yau manifold. We mostly focus on the N = 2 case, then the Calabi-Yau space is a conifold. On the other hand, in the non-linear sigma model (NLSM) formulation the model has ultra-violet logarithms and does not look conformal. Moreover, its metric is not Ricci-flat. We address this puzzle by studying the renormalization group (RG) flow of the model. We show that the metric of NLSM becomes Ricci-flat in the IR. Moreover, it tends to the known metric of the resolved conifold. We also study a close relative of the 𝕎ℂℙ model — the so called zn model — which in actuality represents the world sheet theory on a non-Abelian semilocal string and show that this zn model has similar RG properties.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanno Bertle ◽  
Andrea Dei ◽  
Matthias R. Gaberdiel

Abstract The large N limit of symmetric orbifold theories was recently argued to have an AdS/CFT dual world-sheet description in terms of an sl(2, ℝ) WZW model. In previous work the world-sheet state corresponding to the symmetric orbifold stress-energy tensor was identified. We calculate certain 2- and 3-point functions of the corresponding vertex operator on the world-sheet, and demonstrate that these amplitudes reproduce exactly what one expects from the dual symmetric orbifold perspective.


1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (28) ◽  
pp. 4501-4517 ◽  
Author(s):  
FEDELE LIZZI

We describe how the presence of the antisymmetric tensor (torsion) on the world sheet action of string theory renders the size of the target space a gauge noninvariant quantity. This generalizes the R ↔ 1/R symmetry in which momenta and windings are exchanged, to the whole O(d,d,ℤ). The crucial point is that, with a transformation, it is possible always to have all of the lowest eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian to be momentum modes. We interpret this in the framework of noncommutative geometry, in which algebras take the place of point spaces, and of the spectral action principle for which the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator are the fundamental objects, out of which the theory is constructed. A quantum observer, in the presence of many low energy eigenvalues of the Dirac operator (and hence of the Hamiltonian) will always interpreted the target space of the string theory as effectively uncompactified.


1990 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 381-384
Author(s):  
Yan Jun ◽  
Li Jiangnan ◽  
Hu Shike
Keyword(s):  

The construction of field theory which exhibits invariance under the Weyl group with parameters dependent on space–time is discussed. The method is that used by Utiyama for the Lorentz group and by Kibble for the Poincaré group. The need to construct world-covariant derivatives necessitates the introduction of three sets of gauge fields which provide a local affine connexion and a vierbein system. The geometrical implications are explored; the world geometry has an affine connexion which is not symmetric but is semi-metric. A possible choice of Lagrangian for the gauge fields is presented, and the resulting field equations and conservation laws discussed.


2003 ◽  
Vol 2003 (11) ◽  
pp. 024-024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zackaria Chacko ◽  
Eduardo Pontón

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