DYNAMICAL DESCRIPTION OF SPECTRAL FLOW IN N=2 SUPERCONFORMAL FIELD-THEORIES

Authors
COOPER L KOGAN II SZABO RJ
Citation
L. Cooper et al., DYNAMICAL DESCRIPTION OF SPECTRAL FLOW IN N=2 SUPERCONFORMAL FIELD-THEORIES, Nuclear physics. B, 498(1-2), 1997, pp. 492-510
Citations number
53
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
Nuclear physics. B → ACNP
ISSN journal
05503213
Volume
498
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
492 - 510
Database
ISI
SICI code
0550-3213(1997)498:1-2<492:DDOSFI>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
We show how the spectral flow between the Neveu-Schwarz and Ramond sec tors of N = 2 superconformal field theories can be described in three dimensions in terms of the propagation of charged particles coupled to a Chern-Simons gauge theory. Quantum mechanical mixing between the de generate Chem-Simons vacua interpolates between the different boundary conditions of the two sectors and so provides a dynamical picture for the GSO projection. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.