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The Super Period Matrix with Ramond Punctures in the supergravity formulation

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arxiv 1501.02675 v1 pith:PUT2DQ6T submitted 2015-01-12 hep-th

The Super Period Matrix with Ramond Punctures in the supergravity formulation

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keywords supermatrixperiodpuncturesformulationramondconstructiongenus
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In a very recent preprint, Witten showed how to construct a $g|r \, \times \, g|r$ super period matrix for super Riemann surfaces of genus $g$ with $2r$ Ramond punctures, which is symmetric in the ${\bf Z}_2$ graded sense. He also showed how it can be applied to analyze supersymmetry breaking in string compactifications which are supersymmetric at tree-level. Witten's construction is in the purely holomorphic formulation of super Riemann surfaces. In this paper, a construction is given in the formulation of two-dimensional supergravity. The variations of the super period matrix with respect to supermoduli deformations are also given, as well as an explicit illustration of how the super period matrix with two Ramond punctures would emerge from a degeneration of the super period matrix without punctures in higher genus.

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