N=1/2 Wess-Zumino model is renormalizable
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Published on: November 16, 2013
1Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA. britto@ias.edu
Abstract:
The Wess-Zumino model on N=1/2 nonanticommutative superspace, which contains the dimension-6 term F3, is shown to be renormalizable to all orders in perturbation theory, upon adding F and F2 terms to the original Lagrangian. The renormalizability is possible, even with this higher-dimension operator, because the Lagrangian is not Hermitian. Such deformed field theories arise naturally in string theory with a graviphoton background.
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