Algebraic supersymmetry: a case study (Q2456761)

The authors explore how supersymmetric quantum fields can be treated in a C*-algebra setting, avoiding the obstructions found by \textit{A. Kishimoto} and \textit{H. Nakamura} [Commun. Math. Phys. 159, 15--27 (1994; Zbl 0801.46081)] and \textit{D. Buchholz} and \textit{R. Longo} [Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 3, No. 3, 615--626 (1999); addendum ibid. 3, No. 6, 1909--1910 (2000; Zbl 0998.46032)]. A simple supersymmetric chiral field theory of a free Fermi and Bose field defined on \(\mathbb{R}\) is shown to possess a meaningful C*-version based on the tensor product of a CAR-algebra and a novel version of a CCR-algebra, the ``resolvent algebra''. The elements of this resolvent algebra serve as mollifiers for the super-derivation. Unbounded (but locally bounded) graded KMS-functionals are constructed and proven to be supersymmetric. From these KMS-functionals generalized Chern characters are obtained and used to define cyclic cocycles in the sense of Connes' noncommutative geometry which are ``locally entire''.