Nicolai maps with four-fermion interactions

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Original languageEnglish
Article number132
Number of pages17
JournalJournal of high energy physics
Volume2023
Issue number12
Publication statusPublished - 19 Dec 2023

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Nicolai maps offer an alternative description of supersymmetric theories via nonlinear and nonlocal transformations characterized by the so-called ‘free-action’ and ‘determinant-matching’ conditions. The latter expresses the equality of the Jacobian determinant of the transformation with the one obtained by integrating out the fermions, which so far have been considered only to quadratic terms. We argue that such a restriction is not substantial, as Nicolai maps can be constructed for arbitrary nonlinear sigma models, which feature four-fermion interactions. The fermionic effective one-loop action then gets generalized to higher loops and the perturbative tree expansion of such Nicolai maps receives quantum corrections in the form of fermion loop decorations. The ‘free-action condition’ continues to hold for the classical map, but the ‘determinant-matching condition’ is extended to an infinite hierarchy in fermion loop order. After general considerations for sigma models in four dimensions, we specialize to the case of CPN symmetric spaces and construct the associated Nicolai map. These sigma models admit a formulation with only quadratic fermions via an auxiliary vector field, which does not simplify our analysis.

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    Effective Field Theories, Sigma Models, Space-Time Symmetries, Supersymmetric Gauge Theory

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Nicolai maps with four-fermion interactions. / Casarin, Lorenzo; Lechtenfeld, Olaf; Rupprecht, Maximilian.
In: Journal of high energy physics, Vol. 2023, No. 12, 132, 19.12.2023.

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Casarin L, Lechtenfeld O, Rupprecht M. Nicolai maps with four-fermion interactions. Journal of high energy physics. 2023 Dec 19;2023(12):132. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2310.19946, 10.1007/JHEP12(2023)132
Casarin, Lorenzo ; Lechtenfeld, Olaf ; Rupprecht, Maximilian. / Nicolai maps with four-fermion interactions. In: Journal of high energy physics. 2023 ; Vol. 2023, No. 12.
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