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Comments on HKT supersymmetric sigma models and their Hamiltonian reduction. (English) Zbl 1316.81069

Summary: Using complex notation, we present new simple expressions for two pairs of complex supercharges in HKT (‘hyper-Kähler with torsion’) supersymmetric sigma models. The second pair of supercharges depends on the holomorphic antisymmetric ‘hypercomplex structure’ tensor \(\mathcal{I}_{jk}\) which plays the same role for the HKT models as the complex structure tensor for the Kähler models. When the Hamiltonian and supercharges commute with the momenta conjugate to the imaginary parts of the complex coordinates, one can perform a Hamiltonian reduction. The models thus obtained represent a special class of quasicomplex sigma models introduced recently by E. A. Ivanov and A. V. Smilga [SIGMA, Symmetry Integrability Geom. Methods Appl. 9, Paper 069, 17 p. (2013; Zbl 1287.81108)].

MSC:

81T10 Model quantum field theories
81Q60 Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics
81Q35 Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices
70S20 More general nonquantum field theories in mechanics of particles and systems
81T60 Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics
53C26 Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, “special” geometry

Citations:

Zbl 1287.81108