N=2, 4 supersymmetric gauge field theory in two-time physics
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0484 (United States)
Description
In the context of two-time physics in 4+2 dimensions we construct the most general N=2, 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills gauge theories for any gauge group G. This builds on our previous work for N=1 supersymmetry (SUSY). The action, the conserved SUSY currents, and the SU(N) covariant SUSY transformation laws are presented for both N=2 and N=4. When the equations of motion are used the SUSY transformations close to the supergroup SU(2,2|N) with N=1, 2, 4. The SU(2,2)=SO(4,2) subsymmetry is realized linearly on 4+2 dimensional flat spacetime. All fields, including vectors and spinors, are in 4+2 dimensions. The extra gauge symmetries in 2T field theory, together with the kinematic constraints that follow from the action, remove all the ghosts to give a unitary theory. By choosing gauges and solving the kinematic equations, the 2T field theory in 4+2 flat spacetime can be reduced to various shadows in various 3+1 dimensional (generally curved) spacetimes. These shadows are related to each other by dualities. The conformal shadows of our theories in flat 3+1 dimensions coincide with the well known counterpart N=1, 2, 4 supersymmetric massless renormalizable field theories in 3+1 dimensions. It is expected that our more symmetric new structures in 4+2 spacetime may be useful for nonperturbative or exact solutions of these theories.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.025001;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0808.0537v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 79
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Journal Page Range
- p. 025001-025001.12
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 41010662
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- DUALITY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; EXACT SOLUTIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RENORMALIZATION; SPACE-TIME; SPINORS; SUPERSYMMETRY; TRANSFORMATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; YANG-MILLS THEORY
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SYMMETRY
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2009 The American Physical Society