Published January 15, 1984 | Version v1
Journal article

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

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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