Published February 2, 1989
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Journal article
An off-shell formulation of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in twistor harmonic superspace
Description
Twistor-like harmonic variables which parametrize the coset space SO(1, 4)/SO(1, 2)xSO(2) are introduced. With their help the on-shell constraints for N=4, d=5 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory are rewritten as conditions for flatness in the harmonic directions of superspace. A Chern-Simons off-shell action leading to those equations is proposed. There are indications that the off-shell theory might be finite, despite the fact that the on-shell one seems non-renormalizable. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters, (Section) B
- Journal Volume
- 217
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Series
- Phys. Lett., B.
- Journal Page Range
- 489-495
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 20027416
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACTION INTEGRAL; COMMUTATION RELATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; GRADED LIE GROUPS; HARMONICS; IRREDUCIBLE REPRESENTATIONS; LAGRANGE EQUATIONS; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; LORENTZ GROUPS; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; SL GROUPS; SO-2 GROUPS; SO-4 GROUPS; SP GROUPS; SUPERSYMMETRY; TWISTOR THEORY; U-1 GROUPS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; YANG-MILLS THEORY
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; INTEGRALS; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; POINCARE GROUPS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SO GROUPS; SPACE; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY GROUPS; U GROUPS