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On exactly solvable Yang-Baxter models and enhanced symmetries
by Khalil Idiab, Stijn Jurrien van Tongeren
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Khalil Idiab |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07365v2 (pdf) |
| Date submitted: | 2024-04-04 06:53 |
| Submitted by: | Idiab, Khalil |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
We study Yang-Baxter deformations of the flat space string that result in exactly solvable models, finding the Nappi-Witten model and its higher dimensional generalizations. We then consider the spectra of these models obtained by canonical quantization in light-cone gauge, and match them with an integrability-based Bethe ansatz approach. By considering a generalized light-cone gauge we can describe the model by a nontrivially Drinfel'd twisted S matrix, explicitly verifying the twisted structure expected for such deformations. Next, the reformulation of the Nappi-Witten model as a Yang-Baxter deformation shows that Yang-Baxter models can have more symmetries than suggested by the r matrix defining the deformation. We discuss these enhanced symmetries in more detail for some trivial and nontrivial examples. Finally, we observe that there are nonunimodular but Weyl-invariant Yang-Baxter models of a type not previously considered.
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Strengths
1. The Nappi-Witten background was obtained from the flat space by the Yang-Baxter deformation, and the associated classical r-matrix was determined.
2. Classical integrability of the Nappi-Witten model is argued via the Drinfeld twisted S-matrix.
3. The symmetry enhancement of the Yang-Baxter deformed model was observed, which seems natural from the viewpoint of the local coordinates but non-trivial from that of the algebraic structures of the Yang-Baxter deformation.
4. Presented an example of r-matrix, which is not unimodular but results in the Weyl invariant backgrounds.
Weaknesses
1. The mechanism of symmetry enhancement is not entirely elucidated beyond exhibiting the examples.
2. The reason why the r-matrix (6.24) shows the Weyl symmetry is not clearly explained. It would help readers if the authors wrote the resulting Weyl invariant backgrounds more explicitly.
3. I am afraid that 29 footnotes are too much.
Report
This article investigates deformations of string sigma models, preserving the integrability of the original models, so-called Yang-Baxter sigma models. In particular, the authors have found the classical r-matrix that yields the Nappi-Witten background in Sec. 3.1 and its higher-dimensional generalization. The integrability is also argued in Sec. 4 based on the Drinfeld twist of the S-matrix. Then, the authors observed the symmetry enhancement of the Yang-Baxter deformed models in Sec. 6. Though the theoretical explanation of the enhancement is not completely solved, the authors listed such examples in Subsec. 6.5. In Subsec. 6.6, the non-unimodular r-matrix, which gives the Weyl invariant background, is discussed.
Since the results are significant in the context of the integrability of string background and its integrable deformations, I recommend this article for publication in this journal.
Requested changes
1. In (2.2), mod 2 in the superscript seems strange, and I think it is better to remove it. Instead, for instance, the author could write a grading as $(0), (1) \in \mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$.
2. In Lax connection (2.9), $l_1(z)$ and $l_2(z)$ are not explicitly defined.
3. In (2.13), the indices $\mu'$ and $\nu'$ do not seem canonically contracted in the first term.
4. If footnote 13, the authors state
"This appears to be at odds with our results showing that there is a Yang-Baxter deformation taking the Nappi-Witten model to flat space."
If I could understand the argument of this paper correctly, I think the following comment is more precise;
"This appears to be at odds with our results showing that there is a Yang-Baxter deformation taking flat space to the Nappi-Witten model."
Because the starting background is the flat space, and the Nappi-Witten is the result.
If so, I don't think this work is not at odds with [46].
Recommendation
Publish (meets expectations and criteria for this Journal)