Nicolai maps for supersymmetric sigma models

TL;DR

This paper constructs and tests a Nicolai map for the nonlinear  P^1 sigma model in 3+1 dimensions, advancing the understanding of supersymmetric field transformations and their quantum corrections.

Contribution

It provides a systematic, perturbative construction of the Nicolai map for a specific supersymmetric sigma model, including quantum corrections and fermion loop decorations.

Findings

Constructed a third-order chiral Nicolai map including quantum parts.

Summed all tree diagrams with one or two edges.

Resolved fermion loop decorations using an auxiliary vector field.

Abstract

Supersymmetric field theories can be characterized by their Nicolai map, which is a nonlinear and nonlocal field transformation to their free-field limit. The systematic construction of such maps has recently been outlined for actions with power more than two in the fermions, which produces a perturbative expansion in loop-decorated fermionic tree diagrams. We thoroughly investigate the nonlinear $\mathbb C P^1$ sigma model in ($3{+}1$)-dimensional Minkowski space as a paradigmatical example. We construct and test a chiral form of the Nicolai map, to third order in the coupling, including all (regularized) quantum parts. In addition, all trees with one or two edges are summed up. The free-action condition determines only the one-edge part of the map. We resolve the fermion loop decoration of the Nicolai trees by injecting an auxiliary vector field and present the ensuing classical Nicolai map to second order in a dimensionful coupling.