Gauge-covariant Wess-Zumino actions for super p-branes in superspace

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Title: Gauge-covariant Wess-Zumino actions for super p-branes in superspace

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In this paper the authors present a general method of constructing manifestly world-volume supersymmetric actions of super--branes, starting form some higher-dimensional field theories in which the partial breaking of global supersymmetry (PBGS) comes about. The authors' approach is based upon a substitution of the superspace coordinates which relates linear and nonlinear realizations of PBGS. As instructive examples the authors consider the massive d = 2 superparticle (p = 0) and d = 4 superstring (p = 1). The relevant world-line and world-sheet superfield actions naturally appear as along-wavelength limit of the superfield actions of some two- and four-dimensional supersymmetric field theories possessing topologically nontrivial solliton solutions. The corresponding topological charges prove to enter the super p-brane actions as the coupling constants. The authors also give a new general Wess-Zumino-type representation of the d = 2 superparticle action via the world-line superfields. It respects invariances both under the target space Poincare supersymmetry and the gauge group of general reparametrizations of the world-line superspace. In one gauge, it is reduced to the standard PBGS form while in another, it gives rise to a very simple action which displays manifest world-line superconformal symmetry and is directly related to the familiar component action ofmore »« less

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Ivanov, E A ^[1]; Kapustinikov, A A ^[2]

Lab. of Theoretical Physics, JINR, Dubna (SU)
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (IT)

Publication Date:: 1992-04-20

OSTI Identifier:: 5138276

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: International Journal of Modern Physics A; (United States)

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 7:10; Journal ID: ISSN 0217-751X

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; FIELD THEORIES; SUPERSYMMETRY; COORDINATES; CORRECTIONS; COUPLING CONSTANTS; FERMIONS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; SYMMETRY BREAKING; TOPOLOGY; MATHEMATICS; SPACE; SYMMETRY; 662110* - General Theory of Particles & Fields- Theory of Fields & Strings- (1992-); 662120 - General Theory of Particles & Fields- Symmetry, Conservation Laws, Currents & Their Properties- (1992-)

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                    Ivanov, E A, and Kapustinikov, A A. Gauge-covariant Wess-Zumino actions for super p-branes in superspace.  United States: N. p., 1992. 
        Web.  doi:10.1142/S0217751X92000958.

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                    Ivanov, E A, & Kapustinikov, A A. Gauge-covariant Wess-Zumino actions for super p-branes in superspace.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X92000958

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                    Ivanov, E A, and Kapustinikov, A A. Mon .  
        "Gauge-covariant Wess-Zumino actions for super p-branes in superspace".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X92000958.

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  title        = {Gauge-covariant Wess-Zumino actions for super p-branes in superspace},

  author       = {Ivanov, E A and Kapustinikov, A A},

  abstractNote = {In this paper the authors present a general method of constructing manifestly world-volume supersymmetric actions of super--branes, starting form some higher-dimensional field theories in which the partial breaking of global supersymmetry (PBGS) comes about. The authors' approach is based upon a substitution of the superspace coordinates which relates linear and nonlinear realizations of PBGS. As instructive examples the authors consider the massive d = 2 superparticle (p = 0) and d = 4 superstring (p = 1). The relevant world-line and world-sheet superfield actions naturally appear as along-wavelength limit of the superfield actions of some two- and four-dimensional supersymmetric field theories possessing topologically nontrivial solliton solutions. The corresponding topological charges prove to enter the super p-brane actions as the coupling constants. The authors also give a new general Wess-Zumino-type representation of the d = 2 superparticle action via the world-line superfields. It respects invariances both under the target space Poincare supersymmetry and the gauge group of general reparametrizations of the world-line superspace. In one gauge, it is reduced to the standard PBGS form while in another, it gives rise to a very simple action which displays manifest world-line superconformal symmetry and is directly related to the familiar component action of the superparticle. The fermionic {kappa}-symmetry of the latter can be identified with the odd sector of superconformal symmetry. This identity suggests a simple recipe for building higher-order {kappa}-invariant corrections to the minimal superparticle action.},

  doi          = {10.1142/S0217751X92000958},

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  journal      = {International Journal of Modern Physics A; (United States)},

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