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Harmonic superspace /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Harmonic superspace // A.S. Galperin [and others].
Author:	Galperin, A. S.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Supersymmetry. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511535109
ISBN:	9780511535109 (ebook)

Harmonic superspace /
Galperin, A. S.1954-

Harmonic superspace /A.S. Galperin [and others]. - 1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics. - Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Brief motivations --

This is a pedagogical introduction to the harmonic superspace method in extended supersymmetry. Inspired by exciting developments in superstring theory, it provides a systematic treatment of the quantum field theories with N=2 and N=3 supersymmetry in harmonic superspace. The authors present the harmonic superspace approach as a means of providing an off-shell description of the N=2 supersymmetric theories, both at the classical and quantum levels. Furthermore, they show how it offers a unique way to construct an off-shell formulation of a theory with higher supersymmetry, namely the N=3 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Harmonic Superspace makes manifest many remarkable geometric properties of the N=2 theories, for example, the one-to-one correspondence between N=2 supersymmetric matter, and hyper-Kähler and quaternionic manifolds. This book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students working in the areas of supersymmetric quantum field theory, string theory and complex geometries.

ISBN: 9780511535109 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

579993
Supersymmetry.

LC Class. No.: QC174.17.S9 / G35 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 539.7/25

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505 0 0 $t Brief motivations -- $t Spaces and superspaces -- $t Chirality as a kind of Grassmann analyticity -- $t N = 1 chiral superfields -- $t Auxiliary fields -- $t Why standard superspace is not adequate for N = 2 supersymmetry -- $t Search for conceivable superspaces (spaces) -- $t N = 2 harmonic superspace -- $t Dealing with the sphere S[superscript 2] -- $t Comparison with the standard harmonic analysis -- $t Why harmonic superspace helps -- $t N = 2 supersymmetric theories -- $t N = 2 matter hypermultiplet -- $t N = 2 Yang-Mills theory -- $t N = 2 supergravity -- $t N = 3 Yang-Mills theory -- $t Harmonics and twistors. Self-duality equations -- $t Elements of supersymmetry -- $t Poincare and conformal symmetries -- $t Poincare group -- $t Conformal group -- $t Two-component spinor notation -- $t Poincare and conformal superalgebras -- $t N = 1 Poincare superalgebra -- $t Extended supersymmetry -- $t Conformal supersymmetry -- $t Central charges from higher dimensions -- $t Representations of Poincare supersymmetry -- $t Representations of the Poincare group -- $t Poincare superalgebra representations. Massive case -- $t Poincare superalgebra representations. Massless case -- $t Representations with central charge -- $t Realizations of supersymmetry on fields. Auxiliary fields -- $t N = 1 matter multiplet -- $t N = 1 gauge multiplet -- $t Auxiliary fields and extended supersymmetry -- $t Superspace -- $t Coset space generalities -- $t Coset spaces for the Poincare and super Poincare groups -- $t N = 2 harmonic superspace -- $t Harmonic variables -- $t Harmonic covariant derivatives -- $t N = 2 superspace with central charge coordinates.
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