Published November 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

Supertwistor formulation for massless superparticle in AdS5 × S5 superspace

Creators

  • 1. NSC Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkov, 61108 (Ukraine)

Description

Starting with the first-order formulation of the massless superparticle model on the AdS5×S5 superbackground and presenting the momentum components tangent to AdS5 and S5 subspaces as bilinear combinations of the constrained SU(2)-Majorana spinors allows to bring the superparticle's Lagrangian to the form quadratic in supertwistors. The SU(2,2|4) supertwistors are assembled into a pair of SU(2) doublets, one of which has even SU(2,2) and odd SU(4) components, while the other has odd SU(2,2) and even SU(4) components. They are subject to the first-class constraints that generate the psu(2|2)u(1) gauge algebra. This justifies previously proposed group-theoretic definition of the AdS5×S5 supertwistors and allows to derive the incidence relations with the (10|32) supercoordinates of the AdS5×S5 superspace. Whenever superparticle moves within the AdS5 subspace of the AdS5×S5 space-time, twistor formulation of its Lagrangian involves just one SU(2) doublet of SU(2,2|4) supertwistors with even SU(2,2) and odd SU(4) components. If in addition particle's 5-momentum is null, four first-class constraints which are the su(2)u(1) generators single out upon quantization the states of D=5 N=8 gauged supergravity multiplet in the superambitwistor formulation.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2018.10.006

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2018.10.006;
arXiv
arXiv:1807.08318v4;
PII
S0550321318302876;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
936
Journal Page Range
p. 690-713
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
51048338
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ANTI DE SITTER SPACE; LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION; SPACE-TIME; SPARTICLES; SU-2 GROUPS; SU-4 GROUPS; U-1 GROUPS
Descriptors DEC
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FUNCTIONS; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; POSTULATED PARTICLES; SPACE; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY GROUPS; U GROUPS

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Notes
© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.