Abstract

Renormalisation group (RG) equations in two-dimensional $ \mathcal{N} = 1 $ supersymmetric field theories with boundary are studied. It is explained how a manifestly $ \mathcal{N} = 1 $ supersymmetric scheme can be chosen, and within this scheme the RG equations are determined to next-to-leading order. We also use these results to revisit the question of how brane obstructions and lines of marginal stability appear from a world-sheet perspective.

Highlights

  • Another phenomenon that has attracted a lot of attention recently [1,2,3] concerns lines of marginal stability: a supersymmetric brane may decay into a superposition of D-branes as the string background is modified

  • Among other things we identify the precise coupling constant which controls the bulk induced boundary Renormalisation group (RG) source term of [5], and we explain how the change in conformal dimension of a boundary field can be calculated [9] in this context

  • In our supersymmetric scheme the first order bulk induced boundary RG source term always vanishes for marginal boundary fields

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Summary

Manifestly supersymmetric theories with boundary

After introducing some basic notation we will explain how one can write the perturbation in superspace in a manifestly supersymmetric manner

Superfields and OPEs
Bulk deformations
Boundary deformations
Renormalisation group equations
The supersymmetric scheme
The boundary two-point function
The bulk boundary correlator
Conclusions
A Superspace conventions
Bulk superspace
Boundary superspace
B Generic superspace coordinate transformations
C Gepner point description
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