Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2003-02-18
Nucl.Phys. B663 (2003) 443
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
24 pages, 9 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(03)00385-7
As a step to understand general patterns of integrability in 1+1 quantum field theories with supergroup symmetry, we study in details the case of $OSP(1/2)$. Our results include the solutions of natural generalizations of models with ordinary group symmetry: the $UOSP(1/2)_{k}$ WZW model with a current current perturbation, the $UOSP(1/2)$ principal chiral model, and the $UOSP(1/2)\otimes UOSP(1/2)/UOSP(1/2)$ coset models perturbed by the adjoint. Graded parafermions are also discussed. A pattern peculiar to supergroups is the emergence of another class of models, whose simplest representative is the $OSP(1/2)/OSP(0/2)$ sigma model, where the (non unitary) orthosymplectic symmetry is realized non linearly (and can be spontaneously broken). For most models, we provide an integrable lattice realization. We show in particular that integrable $osp(1/2)$ spin chains with integer spin flow to $UOSP(1/2)$ WZW models in the continuum limit, hence providing what is to our knowledge the first physical realization of a super WZW model.
Saleur Hubert
Wehefritz-Kaufmann Birgit
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