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OU-HET 407 PURD-TH-02-02 hep-th/0203081 March 2002 2 Normal Coordinates in K¨ahler Manifolds 0 and the Background Field Method 0 2 n u J 7 1 Kiyoshi Higashijima1∗ , Etsuko Itou1† and Muneto Nitta2‡ 3 v 1 Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1 8 0 Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan 3 2 0 Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1396, USA 2 0 / h t - Abstract p e h Riemann normal coordinates (RNC) are unsuitable for K¨ahler manifolds : v since they are not holomorphic. Instead, K¨ahler normal coordinates (KNC) i X can be defined as holomorphic coordinates. We prove that KNC transform as r a a holomorphic tangent vector under holomorphic coordinate transformations, and therefore that they are natural extensions of RNC to the case of K¨ahler manifolds. The KNC expansion provides a manifestly covariant background field method preserving the complex structure in supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models. ∗ E-mail: higashij@phys.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp † E-mail: itou@het.phys.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp ‡ E-mail: nitta@physics.purdue.edu 1 Introduction The equivalence principle asserts that general coordinate transformations on curved space-times do not alter any physics, so that one can consider the coordinates that make a given application the simplest. Riemann normal coordina