Published July 30, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Domain walls, the extended superconformal algebra and the supercurrent

  • 1. Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1396 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Keio University, Hiyoshi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8521 (Japan)
  • 3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN 55105-1899 (United States)

Description

The presence of a domain wall is shown to require a tensorial central charge extension of the superconformal algebra. The currents associated with the conformal central charges are constructed as space-time moments of the SUSY tensorial central charge current. The supercurrent is obtained and it contains the R symmetry current, the SUSY spinor currents, the energy-momentum tensor and the SUSY tensorial central charge currents as its component currents. All tensorial central charge extended superconformal currents are constructed from the supercurrent. The superconformal currents' and the conformal tensorial central charge currents' (non-)conservation equations are expressed in terms of the generalized trace of the supercurrent. It is argued that although the SUSY tensorial central charges are uncorrected, the conformal tensorial central charges receive radiative corrections

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.02.006;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-th/0608095v1;
PII
S0550-3213(07)00097-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
776
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 66-92
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
39030325
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ALGEBRA; ENERGY-MOMENTUM TENSOR; EQUATIONS; RADIATIVE CORRECTIONS; SPACE-TIME; SUPERSYMMETRY
Descriptors DEC
CORRECTIONS; MATHEMATICS; SYMMETRY; TENSORS

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.