More on (gauged) WZW models over low-dimensional Lie supergroups and their integrable deformations
Ali Eghbali, Meysam Hosseinpour-Sadid, Adel Rezaei-Aghdam
TL;DR
This work analyzes ungauged and gauged WZW models on low-dimensional Lie supergroups of type $(2|2)$, establishing exact conformal field theories and exploring their dualities. It demonstrates super Poisson–Lie symmetry for gauged models, notably the $(C^3+ A)/SO(2)$ case, and constructs its dual background, confirming one-loop conformality. It then classifies inequivalent Yang–Baxter deformations of the $(C_0^5+ A)$ WZW model by solving the graded (m)GCYBE, deriving explicit deformed backgrounds and conformality conditions, including distinctions between Abelian/unimodular and non-Abelian/non-unimodular cases. The results expand the repertoire of exact superconformal backgrounds and provide a framework for integrable deformations in supergeometry with potential implications for string theory and supergravity. The study also outlines avenues for extending these constructions to higher-dimensional supergroups and additional deformation types.
Abstract
In superdimension $(2|2)$ there are only three non-Abelian Lie superalgebras admitting non-degenerate ad-invariant supersymmetric metric, the well-known Lie superalgebra $gl(1|1)$, and two more, $({\C}^3 + \A)$ and $({\C}_0^5 +{\A})$. After a brief review of the construction of the Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) models based on the $GL(1|1)$ and $(C^3 + A)$ Lie supergroups, we proceed to construct the WZW model on the $({C}_0^5 +{A})$ Lie supergroup. Unfortunately, this model does not include the super Poisson-Lie symmetry. In the following, three new exact conformal field theories of the WZW type are constructed by gauging an anomaly-free subgroup SO(2) of the Lie supergroups mentioned above. The most interesting indication of this work is that the gauged WZW model on the supercoset $(C^3 + A)/$SO(2) has super Poisson-Lie symmetry; most importantly, its dual model is conformally invariant at the one-loop order, and this is presented here for the first time. Finally, in order to study the Yang-Baxter (YB) deformations of the $({C}_0^5 +{A})$ WZW model we obtain the inequivalent solutions of the (modified) graded classical Yang-Baxter equation ((m)GCYBE) for the $({\C}_0^5 +{\A})$ Lie superalgebra. Then, we classify all possible YB deformations for the $({C}_0^5 +{A})$ and settle also the issue of an one-loop conformality of the deformed backgrounds. The classification results are important, in particular in the Lie supergroup case they are rare, much hard technical work was needed to obtain them.