Supersymmetries and Quantum Symmetries : Proceedings of the International Seminar Dedicated to the Memory of V.I. Ogievetsky, Held in Dubna, Russia, 22–26 July 1997 / edited by Julius Wess, Evgeny A. Ivanov.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wess, Julius, Editor.

Ivanov, Evgeny A., Editor.

Series:

Lecture Notes in Physics, 0075-8450 ; 524

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum field theory.

String models.

Particles (Nuclear physics).

Physics.

Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.

Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.

Mathematical Methods in Physics.

Local Subjects:

Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.

Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.

Mathematical Methods in Physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIX, 444 p. 2 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 1999.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a collection of papers in honour of Victor I. Ogievetsky. It contains reviews on supersymmetry and supergravity, dualities, integrable systems, W (super)algebras and quantum symmetries. The reader will also find reprints of some of Ogievetsky's pioneering work on supersymmetry.

Contents:

Linear and nonlinear supersymmetries

Covariant harmonic supergraphity for N=2 super Yang-Mills theories

Rigid N=2 superconformal hypermultiplets

Ectoplasm has no topology: The prelude

From supergravity to ballbearings

On harmonic superspace

Harmonic approach and quaternionic Taub-NUT metric

Supergeometry in equivariant cohomology

Harmonics, notophs and chiral bosons

3-Point functions in N=4 Yang-Mills in harmonic superspace

Harmonic superspaces for three-dimensional theories

The Neveu-Schwarz five-brane and its dual geometries

Superembedding approach and generalized action in string/M-theory

Domain walls and spacetime-filling branes

The quantum geometry of branes

String action on adS space

Making manifest the symmetry enhancement for coinciding BPS branes

On some stability properties of compactified D=11 supermembranes

U-duality and M-theory cosmology

Brane scattering and supersymmetric ?-model geometries

Graviton scattering in eleven-dimensional supergravity

Nilpotent marsh and SUSY QM

On superconformal-like transformations and their nonlinear realization

N=2 SUSY two-boson KP hierarchy, (derivative) NLS equation and miura transformations

Third family of N=2 supersymmetric KdV hierarchies

Integrals of motion, supersymmetric quantum mechanics and dynamical supersymmetry

From LG to a butterfly resolution of unitary N=2 representations

Super-affine hierarchies and their Poisson embeddings

1+1 Dimensional models of dilation gravity coupled to bosons and fermions

Finite-size energy levels of the superintegrable chiral potts model

Characteristic polynomials for quantum matrices

Arbitrary spin massless bosonic fields in d-dimensional anti-de sitter space

Direct mode summation for the Casimir energy of spherical shell and compact ball

On different BRST constructions for a given Lie algebra

Higher-spin gauge theories — Integrability versus locality

Global quantum anomaly

Non-commutative space-time algebra and the spectrum of its operators

Spinors in gravitation theory

The notoph and its possible interactions

Infinite-dimensional algebra of general covariance group as the closure of finite-dimensional algebras of conformal and linear groups

Theory of dynamical affine and conformal symmetries as the theory of the gravitational field

Structure of the supergravity group

Grassmann analyticity and extension of supersymmetry

Harmonic superspace: key to N=2 supersymmetry theories

N=3 supersymmetric gauge theory

Super-self-duality as analyticity in harmonic superspace

List of main publications of V.I. Ogievetsky.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

3-540-48795-6