On a structure of the one-loop divergences in $4D, {\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric sigma-model

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the one-loop divergences in a four-dimensional ${ m N}=2$ supersymmetric sigma-model formulated in harmonic superspace, revealing the structure of quantum corrections and their relation to hyper-K"ahler geometry.

Contribution

It develops a covariant background-quantum splitting and superfield proper-time technique to compute one-loop divergences for the ${ m N}=2$ sigma-model in harmonic superspace, a novel approach in this context.

Findings

Derived explicit one-loop divergences for arbitrary model functions.

Established analogy between sigma-model covariant derivatives and ${ m N}=2$ SYM algebra.

Discussed the component structure of divergences in the bosonic sector.

Abstract

We study the quantum structure of four-dimensional ${\cal N}=2$ superfield sigma-model formulated in harmonic superspace in terms of the omega-hypermultiplet superfield $\omega$. The model is described by harmonic superfield sigma-model metric $g_{ab}(\omega)$ and two potential-like superfields $L^{++}_{a}(\omega)$ and $L^{(+4)}(\omega)$. In bosonic component sector this model describes some hyper-K\"{a}hler manifold. The manifestly ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric covariant background-quantum splitting is constructed and the superfield proper-time technique is developed to calculate the one-loop effective action. The one-loop divergences of the superfield effective action are found for arbitrary $g_{ab}(\omega), L^{++}_{a}(\omega), L^{(+4)}(\omega)$, where some specific analogy between the algebra of covariant derivatives in the sigma-model and the corresponding algebra in the ${\cal N}=2$ SYM theory is used. The component structure of divergences in the bosonic sector is discussed.