The many faces of the superworld : Yuri Golfand memorial volume / edited by M. Shifman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Golfand, Yuri, -1994.

Shifman, Mikhail A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Supersymmetry.

Symmetry (Physics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (689 p.)

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This invaluable volume is dedicated to the memory of Yuri Golfand, one of the discoverers of supersymmetry. Together with his student, he constructed in 1970 the superextension of the Poincaré algebra and obtained the first four-dimensional supersymmetric field theory, a version of supersymmetric QED. Golfand died in 1994 in Israel.Did the pioneers of supersymmetry - Neveu, Schwarz, Ramond, Golfand, Volkov, Wess, Zumino and others - foresee in the early 1970's that they would be opening to us the gates of the superworld? The superworld will become one of the most important components of our un

Contents:

General Acknowledgements; List of Participants; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; Basic Biographic Data; Work on Supersymmetry; Chronology; Likhtman; Missed Crossroads; Glimpses; About This Volume; Conclusions; The Past; MY HUSBAND, MY LOVE; Commentary (composed by M. Marinov, A. Shifman, and M. Shifman); NOTES OF AN OLD GRADUATE STUDENT; Commentary (composed by M. Shifman); REVEALING THE PATH TO THE SUPERWORLD; Acknowledgements; References; COMMENT ON CHRONOLOGY AND NUMEROLOGY OF RESEARCH ON SUPERSYMMETRY; ON EXTENSIONS OF THE ALGEBRA OF GENERATORS OF THE POINCARE GROUP BY BISPINOR GENERATORS

2.5 Supergauge theoriesConcluding remarks; Acknowledgments; References; Reviews; Appendix; List of publications of Yu. A. Golfand; The Present; FROM SYMMETRY TO SUPERSYMMETRY; Acknowledgements; References; DUALITY INVARIANT BORN-INFELD THEORY; Acknowledgments; References; BACKLUND TRANSFORMATIONS IN 10D SUSY YANG-MILLS THEORIES; 1 Remembering the early times; 2 Introducing the present work; 3 Yang's form of the field equations; 3.1 A useful on-shell gauge; 3.2 Dynamical equations for the superpotential field Φ.; 4 Backlund transformations; 4.1 The principle; 4.2 Definition

5.1 Examples5.2 Taub-NUT Reduction; Acknowledgments; References; SUPERSYMMETRIC INDEX OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL GAUGE THEORY; 1 Introduction; 2 Computation via Low Energy Effective Field Theory; 2.1 Microscopic Derivation of Parity Anomaly; 2.2 The SU(n)/Zn Theory; 3 Microscopic Computation of the Index; 3.1 Calculations; 3.2 Orbifolds and Anyons; Anyons; 3.3 Discrete Electric And Magnetic Flux; 4 Classification of Massive Phases; Analysis Of Phases In Three Dimensions; Generalization; Acknowledgments; References; VACUUM STRUCTURE IN SUPERSYMMETRIC YANG-MILLS THEORIES WITH ANY GAUGE GROUP

1 Introduction

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789812793850

9812793852