N=2 supersymmetric sigma-models in AdS

Understand

We construct the most general N=2 supersymmetric nonlinear sigma-model in four-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) space in terms of N=1 chiral superfields.

• The target space is shown to be a non-compact hyperkahler manifold restricted to possess a special Killing vector field.
• A remarkable property of the sigma-model constructed is that the algebra of OSp(2|4) transformations is closed off the mass shell.