Supersymmetry and Supergravity Revised Edition

This widely acclaimed introduction to N = 1 supersymmetry and supergravity is aimed at readers familiar with relativistic quantum field theory who wish to learn about the supersymmetry algebra. In this new volume Supersymmetry and Supergravity has been greatly expanded to include a detailed derivati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Wess, Julius (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Bagger, Jonathan (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press, [2020]
Series:	Princeton Series in Physics ; 103
Subjects:	". "Coleman-Mandula theorem. Bianchi identities. Chiral superfields. Euler-Lagrange equations. Feynman rules. Gauge theories. Green's functions. Killing vectors. Kähler geometry. Lie algebra. Nonlinear transformations. Schwinger terms. Vectors. bracket structure. chiral dynamics. covariant derivatives. low-energy theorems. nonlinear realizations. polynomial. spinors algebra. standard realizations. supersymmetry. SCIENCE / Physics / General. Supersymmetry. Supergravity. EBSCO eBooks
Online Access:	https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/2423836.pdf

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
CONTENTS
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
PREFACE
I. WHY SUPERSYMMETRY?
II. REPRESENTATIONS OF THE SUPERSYMMETRY ALGEBRA
III. COMPONENT FIELDS
IV. SUPERFIELDS
V. CHIRAL SUPERFIELDS
VI. VECTOR SUPERFIELDS
VII. GAUGE INVARIANT INTERACTIONS
VIII. SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING
IX. SUPERFIELD PROPAGATORS
X. FEYNMAN RULES FOR SUPERGRAPHS
XI. NONLINEAR REALIZATIONS
XII. DIFFERENTIAL FORMS IN SUPERSPACE
XIII. GAUGE THEORIES REVISITED
XIV. VIELBEIN, TORSION, AND CURVATURE
XV. BIANCHI IDENTITIES
XVI. SUPERGAUGE TRANSFORMATIONS
XVII. THE Ɵ = Ō = 0 COMPONENTS OF THE VIELBEIN, CONNECTION, TORSION, AND CURVATURE
XVIII. THE SUPERGRAVITY MULTIPLET
XIX. CHIRAL AND VECTOR SUPERFIELDS IN CURVED SPACE
XX. NEW Ɵ VARIABLES AND THE CHIRAL DENSITY
XXI. THE MINIMAL CHIRAL SUPERGRAVITY MODEL
XXII. CHIRAL MODELS AND KAHLER GEOMETRY
XXIII. GENERAL CHIRAL SUPERGRAVITY MODELS
XXIV. GAUGE INVARIANT MODELS
XXV. GAUGE INVARIANT SUPERGRAVITY MODELS
XXVI. LOW-ENERGY THEOREMS
APPENDIX A: Notation and Spinor Algebra
APPENDIX B: Results in Spinor Algebra
APPENDIX C: Kahler Geometry
APPENDIX D: Isometries and Kahler Geometry
APPENDIX E: Nonlinear Realizations
APPENDIX F: Nonlinear Realizations and Invariant Actions
APPENDIX G: Gauge Invariant Supergravity Models

Supersymmetry and Supergravity Revised Edition

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