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Local supersymmetry in superspace

S. James Gates, Joel A. Shapiro

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Supersymmetric Yang-Mills and gravitational theories are formulated in terms of connections on superspace. The anticommutator of the spinor components of the connections are constrained. This gives the usual supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and a formulation of supergravity in terms of a gauge phase factor. Supergauge invariance is used to reduce the phase factor to Wess-Zumino form, leaving the local supersymmetry algebra which agrees with the transformations of Breitenlohner.

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Supersymmetric Yang-Mills and gravitational theories are formulated in terms of connections on superspace. The anticommutator of the spinor components of the connections are constrained. This gives the usual supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and a formulation of supergravity in terms of a gauge phase factor. Supergauge invariance is used to reduce the phase factor to Wess-Zumino form, leaving the local supersymmetry algebra which agrees with the transformations of Breitenlohner.

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Supersymmetric Yang-Mills and gravitational theories are formulated in terms of connections on superspace. The anticommutator of the spinor components of the connections are constrained. This gives the usual supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and a formulation of supergravity in terms of a gauge phase factor. Supergauge invariance is used to reduce the phase factor to Wess-Zumino form, leaving the local supersymmetry algebra which agrees with the transformations of Breitenlohner.

Key concepts: Superspace, Supergravity, Supermultiplet, Physics, Supersymmetry, D-term, F-term, Spinor

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