On supermatrix models, Poisson geometry and noncommutative supersymmetric gauge theories

We construct a new supermatrix model which represents a manifestly supersymmetric noncommutative regularisation of the $UOSp(2\vert 1)$ supersymmetric Schwinger model on the supersphere. Our construction is much simpler than those already existing in the literature and it was found by using Poisson geometry in a substantial way.Comment: 29 pages, we enlarge Section 3.3 by adding a comparison with older results on the subject of the component expansion

Hidden isometry of "T-duality without isometry"

We study the T-dualisability criteria of Chatzistavrakidis, Deser and Jonke [3] who recently used Lie algebroid gauge theories to obtain sigma models exhibiting a "T-duality without isometry". We point out that those T-dualisability criteria are not written invariantly in [3] and depend on the choice of the algebroid framing. We then show that there always exists an isometric framing for which the Lie algebroid gauging boils down to standard Yang-Mills gauging. The "T-duality without isometry" of Chatzistavrakidis, Deser and Jonke is therefore nothing but traditional isometric non-Abelian T-duality in disguise.Comment: 15 page

Quasitriangular chiral WZW model in a nutshell

We give the bare-bone description of the quasitriangular chiral WZW model for the particular choice of the Lu-Weinstein-Soibelman Drinfeld double of the affine Kac-Moody group. The symplectic structure of the model and its Poisson-Lie symmetry are completely characterized by two $r$-matrices with spectral parameter. One of them is ordinary and trigonometric and characterizes the $q$-current algebra. The other is dynamical and elliptic (in fact Felder's one) and characterizes the braiding of $q$-primary fields.Comment: 8 pages, LaTeX, to appear in the Proceedings of the Yokohama meeting on String theory and noncommutative geometry (March 2001

q-deformation of z→az+bcz+dz\to {az+b\over cz+d}

We construct the action of the quantum double of \uq on the standard Podle\'s sphere and interpret it as the quantum projective formula generalizing to the q-deformed setting the action of the Lorentz group of global conformal transformations on the ordinary Riemann sphere.Comment: LaTeX, 16 pages, we add a reference where an alternative construction of the q-Lorentz group action on the Podles sphere is give

D-branes in the Euclidean AdS3AdS_3 and T-duality

We show that D-branes in the Euclidean $AdS_3$ can be naturally associated to the maximally isotropic subgroups of the Lu-Weinstein double of SU(2). This picture makes very transparent the residual loop group symmetry of the D-brane configurations and gives also immediately the D-branes shapes and the $\sigma$-model boundary conditions in the de Sitter T-dual of the $SL(2,C)/SU(2)$ WZW model.Comment: 29 pages, LaTeX, references adde

One loop renormalizability of the Poisson-Lie sigma models

We present the proof of the one loop renormalizability in the strict field theoretic sense of the Poisson-Lie sigma models. The result is valid for any Drinfeld double and it relies solely on the Poisson-Lie structure encoded in the target manifold.Comment: 11 page

Poisson-Lie generalization of the Kazhdan-Kostant-Sternberg reduction

The trigonometric Ruijsenaars-Schneider model is derived by symplectic reduction of Poisson-Lie symmetric free motion on the group U(n). The commuting flows of the model are effortlessly obtained by reducing canonical free flows on the Heisenberg double of U(n). The free flows are associated with a very simple Lax matrix, which is shown to yield the Ruijsenaars-Schneider Lax matrix upon reduction.Comment: 13 pages, LaTeX, minor modifications and references added in v

Quantum Fluctuations and Curvature Singularities in Jackiw-Teitelboim Gravity

The Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity with the matter degrees of freedom is considered. The classical model is exactly solvable and its solutions describe non-trivial gravitational scattering of matter wave-packets. For huge amount of the solutions the scattering space-times are free of curvature singularities. However, the quantum corrections to the field equations inevitably cause the formation of (thunderbolt) curvature singularities, vanishing only in the limit $\hbar\to 0$. The singularities cut the space-time and disallow propagation to the future.The model is inspired by the dimensional reduction of 4-d pure Einstein gravity, restricted to the space-times with two commuting space-like Killing vectors. The matter degrees of freedom also stem from the 4-d ansatz. The measures for the continual integrations are judiciously chosen and one loop contributions (including the graviton and the dilaton ones) are evaluated. For the number of the matter fields $N=24$ we obtain even the exact effective action, applying the DDK-procedure. The effective action is nonlocal, but the semiclassical equations can be solved by using some theory of the Hankel transformations.Comment: 32 pages, LaTeX, PRA-HEP-93/

Affine Poisson and affine quasi-Poisson T-duality

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Yang–Baxter σ -model with WZNW term as E -model

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