J 2017

From Diophantus to supergravity and massless higher spin multiplets

GATES, Sylvester James a Konstantinos KOUTROLIKOS

Základní údaje

Originální název

From Diophantus to supergravity and massless higher spin multiplets

Autoři

GATES, Sylvester James (840 Spojené státy) a Konstantinos KOUTROLIKOS (300 Řecko, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Journal of High Energy Physics, New York, SPRINGER, 2017, 1029-8479

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10303 Particles and field physics

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 5.541

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/17:00095573

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

UT WoS

000415203400001

Klíčová slova anglicky

Supergravity Models; Superspaces; Supersymmetric Effective Theories

Štítky

Změněno: 4. 4. 2018 08:57, Ing. Nicole Zrilić

Anotace

V originále

We present a new method of deriving the off-shell spectrum of supergravity and massless 4D, N = 1 higher spin multiplets without the need of an action and based on a set of natural requirements: (a.) existence of an underlying superspace description, (b.) an economical description of free, massless, higher spins and (c.) equal numbers of bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom. We prove that for any theory that respects the above, the fermionic auxiliary components come in pairs and are gauge invariant and there are two types of bosonic auxiliary components. Type (1) are pairs of a (2,0)-tensor with real or imaginary (1,1)-tensor with non-trivial gauge transformations. Type (2) are singlets and gauge invariant. The outcome is a set of Diophantine equations, the solutions of which determine the off-shell spectrum of supergravity and massless higher spin multiplets. This approach provides (i) a classification of the irreducible, supersymmetric, representations of arbitrary spin and (ii) a very clean and intuitive explanation to why some of these theories have more than one formulations (e.g. the supergravity multiplet) and others do not.

Návaznosti

GBP201/12/G028, projekt VaV
Název: Ústav Eduarda Čecha pro algebru, geometrii a matematickou fyziku
Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Ústav Eduarda Čecha pro algebru, geometrii a matematickou fyziku