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Nuclear Physics B
Volume 454, Issues 1-2, 6 November 1995, Pages 103-126
 
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On the N = 2 supersymmetric Image σ model and Chern-Simons terms

Massimiliano Ciuchinia and J. A. Graceyb

a Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università & INFN, Piazza Torricelli 2, I-56126, Pisa, Italy Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom1

Received 20 June 1995; 
accepted 14 August 1995. ;
Available online 16 March 2000.

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Abstract

We use the large N self-consistency method to compute the critical exponents of the fields and coupling of the supersymmetric Image σ model at leading order in 1/N in various dimensions. We verify that the correction to the critical β-function slope vanishes at O(1/N), which is consistent with supersymmetry. The three-dimensional model is investigated explicitly when a Chern-Simons term is included supersymmetrically. We determine the modification that this has on the gauge independent quantity β′(gc) as a function of the Chern-Simons coupling, theta. For an Image = 2 supersymmetric ChernSimons term the exponent is independent of theta at O(1/N), whilst it is invariant under theta → 1/theta when an Image = 1 supersymmetric Chern-Simons term is included.

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Nuclear Physics B
Volume 454, Issues 1-2, 6 November 1995, Pages 103-126
 
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