Superconformal symmetry, the supercurrent, and non-BPS brane dynamics
- Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1396 (United States)
The Noether currents associated with the nonlinearly realized super-Poincare symmetries of the Green-Schwarz (Nambu-Goto-Akulov-Volkov) action for a non-Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (non-BPS) p=2 brane embedded in a N=1, D=4 target superspace are constructed. The R symmetry current, the supersymmetry currents, the energy-momentum tensor and the scalar central charge current are shown to be components of a world-volume supercurrent. The centrally extended superconformal transformations are realized on the Nambu-Goldstone boson and fermion fields of the non-BPS brane. The superconformal currents form supersymmetry multiplets with the world-volume conformal central charge current and special conformal current being the primary components of the supersymmetry multiplets containing all the currents. Correspondingly the superconformal symmetry breaking terms form supersymmetry multiplets the components of which are obtainable as supersymmetry transformations of the primary currents' symmetry breaking terms.
- OSTI ID:
- 20705874
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 71, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.025017; (c) 2005 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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