Chiral de Rham Complex on Riemannian Manifolds and Special Holonomy

Joel Ekstrand, Reimundo Heluani*, Johan Källén, Maxim Zabzine

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Abstract

Interpreting the chiral de Rham complex (CDR) as a formal Hamiltonian quantization of the supersymmetric non-linear sigma model, we suggest a setup for the study of CDR on manifolds with special holonomy. We show how to systematically construct global sections of CDR from differential forms, and investigate the algebra of the sections corresponding to the covariantly constant forms associated with the special holonomy. As a concrete example, we construct two commuting copies of the Odake algebra (an extension of the N = 2 superconformal algebra) on the space of global sections of CDR of a Calabi-Yau threefold and conjecture similar results for G2 manifolds. We also discuss quasi-classical limits of these algebras.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)575-613
Number of pages39
JournalCommunications in Mathematical Physics
Volume318
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2013

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Mathematical Physics

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