Superfield formulation of central charge anomalies in two-dimensional supersymmetric theories with solitons

A superfield formulation is presented of the central charge anomaly in quantum corrections to solitons in two-dimensional theories with N=1 supersymmetry. Extensive use is made of the superfield supercurrent, that places the supercurrent J^{mu}_{alpha}, energy-momentum tensor Theta^{mu nu} and topological current zeta^{mu} in a supermultiplet, to study the structure of supersymmetry and related superconformal symmetry in the presence of solitons. It is shown that the supermultiplet structure of (J^{mu}_{alpha}, Theta^{mu nu}, zeta^{mu}) is kept exact while the topological current zeta^{\mu} acquires a quantum modification through the superconformal anomaly. In addition, the one-loop superfield effective action is explicitly constructed to verify the BPS saturation of the soliton spectrum as well as the effect of the anomaly.

K. Shizuya · 2003