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Essays on Supersymmetry

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  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. C. Fronsdal

    1. Department of Physics, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

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Part of the book series: Mathematical Physics Studies (MPST, volume 8)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • C. Fronsdal
    Pages 1-14

  3. Unitary Representations of Supergroups

    • C. Fronsdal, T. Hirai
    Pages 15-66

  4. 3+2 De Sitter Superfields

    • C. Fronsdal
    Pages 67-122

  5. Spontaneously Generated Field Theories, Zero-Center Modules, Colored Singletons and the Virtues of N = 6 Supergravity

    • M. Flato, C. Fronsdal
    Pages 123-162

  6. Massless Particles, Orthosymplectic Symmetry and Another Type of Kaluza-Klein Theory

    • C. Fronsdal
    Pages 163-265

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 266-270
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to our own also needs to be understood. Such unification may also require that the supersymmetry group possess irreducible representations with infinite reductiori on the Poincare subgroup, to accommodate an infinite set of particles. Such possibilities were 5 envisaged long ago and have recently reappeared in Kaluza-Klein . 6 d' . th 7 S . l' th supergraVlty an m superstnng eory. upersymmetry Imp Ies at forces that are mediated by bose exchange must be complemented by forces that are due to the exchange of fermions. The masslessness of neutrinos is suggestive-we continue to favor the idea that neutrinos are fundamental to weak interactions, that they will finally play a more central role than the bit part assigned to them in Weinberg-Salam theory. There seems to be little room for doubting that supersymmetry is badly broken-so where should one be looking for the first tangible manifestations of it? It is remarkable that the successes that can be legitimately claimed for supersymmetry are all in the domain of massless particles and fields. Supergravity is not renormalizable, but it is an improvement (in this respect) over ordinary quantum gravity. Finite super Yang-Mills theories are not yet established, but there is now a strong concensus that they soon will be. In both cases massless fields are involved in an essential way.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

    C. Fronsdal

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Essays on Supersymmetry

  • Editors: C. Fronsdal

  • Series Title: Mathematical Physics Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4624-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2207-2Due: 31 March 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8555-7Published: 01 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-4624-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0921-3767

  • Series E-ISSN: 2352-3905

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 280

  • Topics: Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

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