ON SUPER MULTIPLET TWISTING AND SPIN-STATISTICS

    Authors

    T. Hubsch

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Mod. Phys. Lett. A

    Keywords

    Supersymmetry; off-shell supermultiplets; BV-BRST formalism; LINEAR SIGMA-MODELS; GAUGE-THEORIES; SUPERSYMMETRY; REPRESENTATION; SUPERFIELDS; Physics, Nuclear; Physics, Particles & Fields; Physics, Mathematical

    Abstract

    Twisting of off-shell supermultiplets in models with (1 +1)-dimensional spacetime has been discovered in 1984, and was shown to be a generic feature of off-shell representations in worldline supersymmetry two decades later. It is shown herein that in all supersymmetric models with spacetime of four or more dimensions, this off-shell supermultiplet twisting, if nontrivial, necessarily maps regular (non-ghost) supermultiplets to ghost supermultiplets. This feature is shown to be ubiquitous in all fully off-shell supersymmetric models with (BV/BRST-treated) constraints.

    Journal Title

    Modern Physics Letters A

    Volume

    28

    Issue/Number

    33

    Publication Date

    1-1-2013

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    23

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000325718500004

    ISSN

    0217-7323

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