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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.
We perform a systematic study of the one-loop renormalizability of all Poisson-Lie T-dualizable $\si$-models with two-dimensional targets. We show that whatever Drinfeld double and whatever matrix of coupling constants we consider the corresponding $\si$-model is always one-loop renormalizable in the strict field theoretical sense. Moreover, in all cases, the RG flow in the space of the coupling constants is compatible with the Poisson-Lie T-duality.
The results obtained by Pauli, in his 1926 article on the hydrogen atom, made essential use of the dynamical so(4) symmetry of the bound states. Pauli used this symmetry to compute the perturbed energy levels of an hydrogen atom in a uniform electric field (Stark effect) and in uniform electric and magnetic fields. Although the experimental check of the single Stark effect on the hydrogen atom has been studied experimentally, Pauli's results in mixed fields have been studied only for Rydberg states of rubidium atoms in crossedfields and lithium atoms in parallel fields.
The multi-centre metrics are a family of euclidean solutions of the empty space Einstein equations with self-dual curvature. For this full class, we determine which metrics do exhibit an extra conserved quantity quadraic in the momenta, induced by a Killing-Stackel tensor. Our results bring to light several metrics which correspond to classically integrable dynamical systems. They include, as particular cases, the Eguchi-Hanson and Taub-NUT metrics.
We study the principal sigma-models defined on any group manifold GL x GR/GD with breaking of GR, and their T-dual transforms. For abritary breaking we can express the torsion and Ricci tensor of the dual model in terms of the frame geometry of the initial principal model. Using these results, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the dual model to be torsionless and prove that the one-loop renormalizability of a given principal model is inherited by its dual partner, who shares the same beta-functions. These results are shown to hold also if the principal model is endowed with torsion. As an application we compute the beta-functions for the full Bianchi family and show that for some choices of the breaking parameters the dilaton anomaly is absent: for these choices the dual torsion vanishes. For the dualized Bianchi V model (which is torsionless for any breaking), we take advantage of its simpler structure, to study its two-loops renormalizability.
In the same spirit as done for N=2 and N=4 supersymmetric non-linear $\si$ models in 2 space-time dimensions by Zumino and Alvarez- Gaumé and Freedman, we analyse the (2,0) and (4,0) heterotic geometry in holomorphic coordinates. We study the properties of the torsion tensor and give the conditions under which (2,0) geometry is conformally equivalent to a (2,2) one. Using additional isometries, we show that it is difficult to equip a manifold with a closed torsion tensor, but for the real 4 dimensional case where we exhibit new examples. We show that, contrarily to Callan, Harvey and Strominger 's claim for real 4 dimensional manifolds, (4,0) heterotic geometry is not necessarily conformally equivalent to a (4,4) Kähler Ricci flat geometry. We rather prove that, whatever the real dimension be, they are special quasi Ricci flat spaces, and we exemplify our results on Eguchi-Hanson and Taub-NUT metrics with torsion.