Structure of superspace in supersymmetry
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627
Description
It is known that the scalar superspace in supersymmetry theory is the direct sum of chiral, antichiral, and isoscalar (or linear) fields, provided that the mass of the system is not zero. However, we show here that the situation changes drastically for the massless case. The whole superspace becomes reducible but not fully reducible. Moreover, it is indecomposable in a sense to be specified. The same reducible but indecomposable property is also shared by any chiral, antichiral, and isoscalar spaces. However, if we accept only unitary representations on positive-metric spaces, then only irreducible components of these spaces must be physically relevant. We demonstrate that these facts are intimately connected with the structure of the commutator algebra of the little Lie superalgebra as well as with a difference of Casimir invariants of the supersymmetry between the massive and massless cases
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Phys. Rev., D
- Journal Volume
- 29
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 269-284
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 15057915
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CASIMIR OPERATORS; CHIRALITY; LIE GROUPS; MASS; METRICS; RENORMALIZATION; SCALAR FIELDS; SUPERSYMMETRY
- Descriptors DEC
- MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY GROUPS