Published April 13, 1989
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Journal article
(Super-)field theories from (super-)twistors
Creators
- 1. Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovoth (Israel). Dept. of Physics
Description
We obtain higher spin linearized field theories through the BRST second quantization of the classical D=4 massless point particle. By applying the same procedure to the classical supersymmetric particles, one obtains linearized N-extended off-shell unconstrained superfield actions. By extending the procedure to D=10, one is led to a new spacetime geometry which reduces in some limit to the usual D=10 Minkowski geometry. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters, (Section) B
- Journal Volume
- 220
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Series
- Phys. Lett., B.
- Journal Page Range
- 562-568
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 20046994
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACTION INTEGRAL; ANGULAR MOMENTUM OPERATORS; ASYMPTOTIC SOLUTIONS; COMMUTATION RELATIONS; DIRAC EQUATION; FIELD OPERATORS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; GEOMETRY; GRADED LIE GROUPS; LAGRANGE EQUATIONS; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; MAJORANA THEORY; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MINKOWSKI SPACE; POINCARE GROUPS; QUASILINEAR PROBLEMS; SECOND QUANTIZATION; SPACE-TIME; SPINOR FIELDS; SUPERSYMMETRY; TWISTOR THEORY; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; VECTOR FIELDS; WEYL UNIFIED THEORY; YANG-MILLS THEORY
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; INTEGRALS; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MATHEMATICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTIZATION; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUANTUM OPERATORS; SPACE; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY GROUPS; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES; WAVE EQUATIONS