Classification of \(N\)-(super)-extended Poincaré algebras and bilinear invariants of the spinor representation of \(Spin(p,q)\) (Q1357595): Difference between revisions

As is known the General Relativity is a gauge theory with the Poincaré group \(P(1,3)=\mathbb{R}^{1,3}\dot\times Lor(1,3)\) of Minkowski space \(\mathbb{R}^{1,3}\) as gauge group (\(\dot\times\) is the semidirect product). In \(N\)-extended supergravity the \(N\)-extended Poincaré supergroup plays the role of (super) gauge group. The Lie superalgebra of this supergroup for \(N=1\) is defined as \(p^{(1)}(1,3)=g=g_0+g_1=p(1,3)+S\), where \(p(1,3)=\mathbb{R}^{1,3}+so(1,3)\) is the Poincaré Lie algebra and \(S=C^2\) is the spinor module of the Lorentz algebra \(so(1,3)\cong sl(2,\mathbb{C})\) trivially extended to a \(p(1,3)\)-module. The supercommutator \(\{\cdot,\cdot\}: S\otimes S\to \mathbb{R}^{1,3}\) is defined as the projection onto the unique vector supermodule \(V\cong \mathbb{R}^{1,3}\) in the symmetric square \(\vee^2S\). In this case there exists also a unique vector submodule in \(\wedge^2S\), which defines on \(p(1,3)+S\) the structure of a \(\mathbb{Z}_2\)-graded Lie algebra \(p^{(-1)}(1,3)\). The goal of the paper is to classify for any pseudo-Euclidean space \(V=\mathbb{R}^{p,q}\) all similar extensions of the (generalized) Poincaré algebra \(p(V)=p(p,q)=\mathbb{R}^{p,q}+so(p,q)\) to a super Lie algebra or to a \(\mathbb{Z}_2\)-graded Lie algebra.