One-dimensional sigma-models with N=5,6,7,8 off-shell supersymmetries

TL;DR

This paper develops a computational method to derive off-shell supersymmetric actions for 1D sigma-models with N=5 to 8 supersymmetries, revealing new invariance properties and geometric structures.

Contribution

It introduces a Maple-based method that avoids superfield formalism to systematically analyze off-shell supersymmetric sigma-models for N=5 to 8.

Findings

Derived actions for N=5 sigma-models with (2,8,6) multiplets

Automated proof of full N=8 off-shell invariance

Identified conformally flat 2D target geometries

Abstract

We computed the actions for the 1D N=5 sigma-models with respect to the two inequivalent (2,8,6) multiplets. 4 supersymmetry generators are manifest, while the constraint originated by imposing the 5-th supersymmetry automatically induces a full N=8 off-shell invariance. The resulting action coincides in the two cases and corresponds to a conformally flat 2D target satisfying a special geometry of rigid type. To obtain these results we developed a computational method (for Maple 11) which does not require the notion of superfields and is instead based on the nowadays available list of the inequivalent representations of the 1D N-extended supersymmetry. Its application to systematically analyze the sigma-models off-shell invariant actions for the remaining N=5,6,7,8 (k,8,8-k) multiplets, as well as for the N>8 representations,only requires more cumbersome computations.