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Super-Liouville action for Regge surfaces. (English) Zbl 0953.83004

Summary: We compute the super-Liouville action for a two-dimensional Regge surface by exploiting the invariance of the theory under the superconformal group for sphere topology and under the supermodular group for torus topology. For sphere topology and torus topology with even spin structures, the action is completely fixed up to a term which in the continuum limit goes over to a topological invariant, while the overall normalization of the action can be taken from perturbation theory. For the odd spin structure on the torus, due to the presence of the fermionic supermodulus, the action is fixed up to a modular invariant quadratic polynomial in the fermionic zero-modes.

MSC:

83C27 Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory
83C45 Quantization of the gravitational field

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