$T\bar{T}$-deformed Fermionic Theories Revisited

Abstract

We revisit $T\bar{T}$ deformations of $d=2$ theories with fermions with a view toward the quantization. As a simple illustration, we compute the deformed Dirac bracket for a Majorana doublet and confirm the known eigenvalue flows perturbatively. We mostly consider those $T\bar{T}$ theories that can be reconstructed from string-like theories upon integrating out the worldsheet metric. After a quick overview of how this works when we add NSR-like or GS-like fermions, we obtain a known non-supersymmetric $T\bar{T}$ deformation of a $\cN=(1,1)$ theory from the latter, based on the Noether energy-momentum. This worldsheet reconstruction implies that the latter is actually a supersymmetric subsector of a $d=3$ GS-like model, implying hidden supercharges, which we do construct explicitly. This brings us to ask about different $T\bar{T}$ deformations, such as manifestly supersymmetric $T\bar{T}$ and also more generally via the symmetric energy-momentum. We show that, for theories with fermions, such choices often lead us to doubling of degrees of freedom, with potential unitarity issues. We show that the extra sector develops a divergent gap in the "small deformation" limit and decouples in the infrared, although it remains uncertain in what sense these can be considered a deformation.

arXiv comment58 pages + appendices; v2. typos corrected

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