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String effects and field theory puzzles with supersymmetry

1996/01/30 by Ioannis Bakas, I. Bakas, Bakas, I. +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9601158

16 pages, Latex; contribution to the proceedings of the 5th Hellenic school and workshops on elementary particle physics, Corfu, 3-24 September 1995

arxiv created 1996/01/30 · openalex publication_date 1996/01/30 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We investigate field theory puzzles occuring in the interplay between supersymmetry and duality in the presense of rotational isometries (also known as non-triholomorphic in hyper-Kahler geometry). We show that T-duality is always compatible with supersymmetry, provided that non-local world-sheet effects are properly taken into account. The underlying superconformal algebra remains the same, and T-duality simply relates local with non-local realizations of it. The non-local realizations have a natural description using parafermion variables of the corresponding conformal field theory. We also comment on the relevance of these ideas to a possible resolution of long standing problems in the quantum theory of black holes.

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