Nilpotent Charges of a Toy Model of Hodge Theory and an ${\cal N}$ = $2$ SUSY Quantum Mechanical Model: (Anti-)Chiral Supervariable Approach

TL;DR

This paper develops a supervariable approach to derive and interpret nilpotent (anti-)BRST and (anti-)co-BRST symmetries in a toy model of Hodge theory and an ${ m N}=2$ SUSY quantum system, revealing novel properties of charge anticommutativity.

Contribution

It introduces a new supervariable method to analyze symmetries in a toy Hodge theory model and demonstrates the absolute anticommutativity of fermionic charges as a novel finding.

Findings

Established geometrical interpretations of symmetry invariance and nilpotency.

Proved the absolute anticommutativity of conserved fermionic charges in the toy model.

Showed that ${ m N}=2$ SUSY charges do not always absolutely anticommute.

Abstract

We derive the nilpotent (anti-)BRST and (anti-)co-BRST symmetry transformations for the system of a toy model of Hodge theory (i.e. a rigid rotor) by exploiting the (anti-)BRST and (anti-)co-BRST invariant restrictions on the (anti-)chiral supervariables that are defined on the appropriately chosen (1, 1)-dimensional super-submanifolds of the {\it general} (1, 2)-dimensional supermanifold on which our system of a one (0 + 1)-dimensional (1D) toy model of Hodge theory is considered within the framework of the augmented version of the (anti-)chiral supervariable approach (ACSA) to Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) formalism. The general (1, 2)-dimensional supermanifold is parameterized by the superspace coordinates ($t, \theta, \bar\theta$) where $t$ is the bosonic evolution parameter and ($\theta, \bar\theta$) are the Grassmannian variables which obey the standard fermionic relationships: $ {\theta}^2 = {\bar\theta}^2 = 0, {\theta}\,{\bar\theta} + {\bar\theta}\,{\theta} = 0 $. We provide the geometrical interpretations for the symmetry invariance and nilpotency property. Furthermore, in our present endeavor, we establish the property of absolute anticommutativity of the conserved fermionic charges which is a completely {\it novel} and surprising observation in our present endeavor where we have considered {\it only} the (anti-)chiral supervariables. To corroborate the {\it novelty} of the above observation, we apply this ACSA to an ${\cal N} = 2$ SUSY quantum mechanical (QM) system of a free particle and show that the ${\cal N} = 2$ SUSY conserved and nilpotent charges do {\it not} absolutely anticommute.