Supersymmetric two-time physics
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0484 (United States)
We construct an Sp(2,R) gauge invariant particle action which possesses manifest space-time SO(d,2) symmetry, global supersymmetry and kappa supersymmetry. The global and local supersymmetries are non-Abelian generalizations of Poincar{acute e} type supersymmetries and are consistent with the presence of two timelike dimensions. In particular, this action provides a unified and explicit superparticle representation of the superconformal groups OSp(N/4), SU(2,2/N) and OSp(8{sup {asterisk}}/N) which underlie various AdS-CFT dualities in M or string theory. By making diverse Sp(2,R) gauge choices our action reduces to diverse one-time physics systems, one of which is the ordinary (one-time) massless superparticle with superconformal symmetry that we discuss explicitly. We show how to generalize our approach to the case of superalgebras, such as OSp(1/32), which do not have direct space-time interpretations in terms of only zero branes, but may be realizable in the presence of {ital p}-branes. {copyright} {ital 1999} {ital The American Physical Society}
- OSTI ID:
- 341451
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, D, Vol. 59, Issue 12; Other Information: PBD: Jun 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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