Super Weyl invariance: BPS equations from heterotic worldsheets

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• Groot Nibbelink, S (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt Mnchen)
• Thursday 28 June 2012, 16:15-16:30
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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Mathematics and Applications of Branes in String and M-theory

It is well-known that the beta functions on a string worldsheet correspond to the target space equations of motion, e.g. the Einstein equations. We show that the BPS equations, i.e. the conditions of vanishing supersymmetry variations of the space-time fermions, can be directly derived from the worldsheet. To this end we consider a heterotic worldsheet model in the RNS -formulation with (2,0) supersymmetry, which describes a complex torsion target space that supports a holomorphic vector bundle. After a detailed account of its quantization and renormalization, we establish that super Weyl anomaly cancellation implies the heterotic BPS conditions: At the one loop level the geometry is required to be conformally balanced and the gauge background has to satisfy the Hermitean Yang-Mills equations.

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