SPECIAL KAHLER GEOMETRY - AN INTRINSIC FORMULATION FROM N=2 SPACE-TIME SUPERSYMMETRY

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作者
CASTELLANI, L
DAURIA, R
FERRARA, S
机构
[1] IST NAZL FIS NUCL,I-35131 PADUA,ITALY
[2] UNIV PADUA,DEPARTIMENTO FIS,I-35131 PADUA,ITALY
[3] CERN,DIV THEORET,CH-1211 GENEVA 23,SWITZERLAND
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10.1016/0370-2693(90)91486-U
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
N=2, 4D supergravity coupled to vector multiplets (1, 1 2, 0) is reanalysed in a geometrical setting. By requiring the closure of the supersymmetry transformation laws, we find a coordinate-free characterization of the manifold M spanned by the scalar fields. The geometry of M, called "special geometry", is relevant to compactified string theories, since it is common to the moduli spaces of Calabi-Yau threefolds and c=9 (2, 2) superconformal field theories. © 1990.
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