Supersymmetric two-time physics

Journal Article · Tue Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1999 · Physical Review, D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.59.125004· OSTI ID:341451

Bars, I; Deliduman, C; Minic, D ^[1]

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1. 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, Journal Name: Physical Review, D Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 59; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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66 PHYSICS
CONFORMAL INVARIANCE
EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL
GAUGE INVARIANCE
SO GROUPS
SPACE-TIME
STRING MODELS
SU-2 GROUPS
SUPERSYMMETRY