Published February 15, 1983 | Version v1
Journal article

Spontaneously broken supersymmetric systems of the nonlinear fields and gauge fields

Creators

  • 1. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305

Description

We consider N = 1 supersymmetric systems of nonlinear fields and gauge fields in (3+1)-dimensional space-time. The nonlinear fields take values on Kaehlerian complex manifolds. In a Lagrangian formulation of the systems based on Grassmann manifolds, which is a class of Kaehler manifolds, we show explicitly that both gauge symmetry and supersymmetry are spontaneously broken. A general argument, in terms of counting of degrees of freedom, further shows that spontaneous gauge-symmetry breakdown is also necessarily accompanied by supersymmetry breakdown in systems based on other classes of Kaehler manifolds. The resulting particle spectra of the systems have remarkable massless sectors consisting of gauge fields and fermions only

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Journal Title
Phys. Rev., D
Journal Volume
27
Journal Issue
4
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
911-916
ISSN
0556-2821