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Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 201601 (2003) [3 pages]

N=1/2 Wess-Zumino Model Is Renormalizable

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Ruth Britto* and Bo Feng
Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA

Received 23 July 2003; published 12 November 2003

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.

© 2003 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.201601
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.201601
PACS:
11.10.Gh, 11.10.Nx, 11.30.Pb

*Electronic address: britto@ias.edu

Electronic address: fengb@ias.edu