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Superfield Lax formalism of supersymmetric sigma model on symmetric spaces

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We present a superfield Lax formalism of the superspace sigma model based on the target space \(\mathcal{G}/\mathcal{H}\) and show that a one-parameter family of flat superfield connections exists if the target space \(\mathcal{G}/\mathcal{H}\) is a symmetric space. The formalism has been related to the existence of an infinite family of local and non-local superfield conserved quantities. A few examples have been given to illustrate the results.

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Saleem, U., Hassan, M. Superfield Lax formalism of supersymmetric sigma model on symmetric spaces. Eur. Phys. J. C 46, 797–805 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2006-02514-x

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