Harmonic superspace
extended supersymmetryGrassmann analyticityharmonic expansionssuperspacesupersymmetric field theories
Functional analysis on superspaces (supermanifolds) or graded spaces (46S60) Supermanifolds and graded manifolds (58A50) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to quantum theory (81-01) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Supergravity (83E50)
Beginning around 1984, the authors of this book invented the harmonic superspace method allowing a systematic treatment of extended \((N > 1)\) supersymmetric field theories. The book is in fact the first pedagogical introduction to this method. Due to its concise style, yet lack of mathematical rigor, it is addressed mainly towards aspiring practitioners in supersymmetric field theories and less towards absolute beginners and mathematicians, as a good working knowledge of group theory and quantum field theory is required. Moreover some prior acqaintance with supersymmetry will be helpful. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEAfter an introductory overview and exposition of the elements of space-time supersymmetry there are two central chapters on superspace and harmonic analysis dealing with the coset construction for the super Poincaré group, the notions of \(N = 2\) harmonic superspace (the Cartesian product of standard superspace and the two-dimensional sphere \(S^2\) \(SU(2)/U(1))\), harmonic variables (in fact the fundamental spinor spherical harmonics serving as ``coordinates on \(S^2\)), and Grassmann analytic superspace, a subspace of harmonic superspace and the natural domain of harmonic superfields obeying a generalized Cauchy-Riemann condition with respect to the anticommuting superspace coordinates. These superfields provide a complete classification of \(N = 2\) supersymmetric matter field theories and thus circumvent a classical no-go theorem by containing infinite sets of auxiliary fields arising from the harmonic expansions. These field theories as well as \(N = 2\) super Yang-Mills theory and \(N = 2\) supergravity (the latter obtained from conformal supergravity upon the introduction of ``compensator fields) are the main applications treated in subsequent chapters of the book. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEA further chapter exposes an analog of harmonic analyticity in ordinary self-dual Yang-Mills theory, its relationship to the twistor space approach (to which it is, however, not identical) and the one-to-one correspondence between \(N = 2\) supersymmetric matter field theories and hyper-Kähler and quaternionic manifolds. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe last chapter generalizes the \(N = 2\) construction presented so far to \(N = 3\) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Not discussed in the book are the latest developments such as the extension to \(N = 4\) (not yet completed in four but in lower dimensions) and the applications in the context of the anti-deSitter space/conformal field theory correspondence and of superstring theory (where non-compact groups have to be dealt with). NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe book has been carefully edited and contains only very few misprints.
- Solution of linear equations in spaces of harmonic variables
- On a large \(N\) degeneracy in \(N=4\) SYM and the AdS/CFT correspondence
- Correlation functions and massive Kaluza-Klein modes in the AdS/CFT correspondence
- Four-point correlators of BPS operators in N=4 SYM at order g^4
- Goldstone superfield actions in \(AdS_5\) backgrounds
- \(\text{AdS}_2\) models in an embedding superspace
- Massive nonlinear sigma models and BPS domain walls in harmonic superspace
- On two-fermion BMN operators
- Quantum metamorphosis of conformal symmetry in \(N=4\) super Yang-Mills theory
- Spinor frame formalism for amplitudes and constrained superamplitudes of 10D SYM and 11D supergravity
- \(\mathrm{SU}(2|2)\) supersymmetric mechanics
- Gauged spinning models with deformed supersymmetry
- Invariants for minimal conformal supergravity in six dimensions
- The anomalous current multiplet in 6D minimal supersymmetry
- On conformal supergravity and harmonic superspace
- Superforms in six-dimensional superspace
- On the dualization of scalars into (\(d - 2\))-forms in supergravity. momentum maps, R-symmetry and gauged supergravity
- Supersymmetric higher spin models in three dimensional spaces
- An analytic superfield formalism for tree superamplitudes in \(D=10\) and \(D=11\)
- One-loop divergences in \(6D\), \( \mathcal{N} = (1, 0)\) SYM theory
- New superconformal multiplets and higher derivative invariants in six dimensions
- All Chern-Simons invariants of 4D, \(N =1\) gauged superform hierarchies
- \( \mathcal{N} =4\) super-Yang-Mills in LHC superspace. I: Classical and quantum theory
- All (4,1): Sigma models with \((4, q)\) off-shell supersymmetry
- \( \mathcal{N} = 4\) super-Yang-Mills in LHC superspace. II: Non-chiral correlation functions of the stress-tensor multiplet
- All (4,0): sigma models with (4,0) off-shell supersymmetry
- Chiral anomalies in six dimensions from harmonic superspace
- Quaternion-Kähler \( \mathcal{N} =4\) supersymmetric mechanics
- Multiparticle \(\mathcal{N} = 8\) mechanics with \(F(4)\) superconformal symmetry
- Supersymmetric action for multiple D0-brane system
- Deformed supersymmetric quantum mechanics with spin variables
- Colour-dressed hexagon tessellations for correlation functions and non-planar corrections
- Local integrands for the five-point amplitude in planar \(N=4\) SYM up to five loops
- Open-closed superstring amplitudes using vertex operators in \(\mathrm{AdS}_{5} \times S^{5}\)
- Conformal supergravity in five dimensions: new approach and applications
- On the formulation of \(D = 11\) supergravity and the composite nature of its three-form gauge field
- Three-dimensional (p, q) AdS superspaces and matter couplings
- Six-dimensional supergravity and projective superfields
- Conformally compactified Minkowski superspaces revisited
- Relating harmonic and projective descriptions of \( \mathcal{N}=2 \) nonlinear sigma models
- Leading low-energy effective action in \(6D\), \( \mathcal{N}=\left(1,1\right) \) SYM theory
- Hamiltonian approach and quantization of \(D=3\), \( \mathcal{N}=1 \) supersymmetric non-abelian multiwave system
- On operator mixing in \(N=4\) SYM
- Manifest supersymmetry for BPS walls in \(N=2\) nonlinear sigma models
- Complete low-energy effective action in N=4 SYM: A direct N=2 supergraph calculation
- Low energy dynamics from deformed conformal symmetry in quantum 4D \({\mathcal N}=2\) SCFTs
- A new class of \({\mathcal N}=2\) topological amplitudes
- Gauge dependence of the one-loop divergences in \(6D,\; \mathcal{N} = (1, 0)\) abelian theory
- Induced low-energy effective action in the \(6D\), \(\mathcal{N} = (1, 0)\) hypermultiplet theory on the vector multiplet background
- Global symmetries of Quaternion-Kähler \(\mathcal{N} = 4\) supersymmetric mechanics
- From correlation functions to event shapes in QCD
- Unconstrained off-shell superfield formulation of \(4D\), \(\mathcal{N} = 2\) supersymmetric higher spins
- Extended superconformal higher-spin gauge theories in four dimensions
- Off-shell cubic hypermultiplet couplings to \(\mathcal{N} = 2\) higher spin gauge superfields
- The NSVZ \(\beta\)-function for theories regularized by higher covariant derivatives: the all-loop sum of matter and ghost singularities
- \( \mathcal{N} = 4\) supersymmetric \(d = 1\) sigma models on group manifolds
- On gauge dependence of the one-loop divergences in \(6D\), \(\mathcal{N} = (1, 0)\) and \(\mathcal{N} = (1, 1)\) SYM theories
- Quantum calculation of the low-energy effective action in \(5D\), \(\mathcal{N} = 2\) SYM theory
- Hidden supersymmetry as a key to constructing low-energy superfield effective actions
- The higher covariant derivative regularization as a tool for revealing the structure of quantum corrections in supersymmetric gauge theories
- Non-compact duality, super-Weyl invariance and effective actions
- Supergraph calculation of one-loop divergences in higher-derivative \(6D\) SYM theory
- Low-energy \(6D\), \(\mathcal{N} = (1, 1)\) SYM effective action beyond the leading approximation
- On the two-loop divergences in 6D, \(\mathcal{N} = (1, 1)\) SYM theory
- Pure spinor superfields and Born-Infeld theory
- Symbols of one-loop integrals from mixed Tate motives
- The background field method for \( \mathcal{N} = {2} \), \(d3\) super Chern-Simons-matter theories
- The structure of \( \mathcal{N} = {2} \) supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models in AdS\({}_{4}\)
- BMS charge algebra
- From correlation functions to scattering amplitudes
- Vector-tensor supermultiplets in AdS and supergravity
- Superconformal \(\mathcal{N} = {3}\) SYM low-energy effective action
- New Fayet-Iliopoulos terms in \( \mathcal{N}=2 \) supergravity
- Two problems in the theory of differential equations
- Harmonic superspace approach to the effective action in six-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories
- The three-loop form factor in \(\mathcal{N} = {4}\) super Yang-Mills
- \(N=4\) topological amplitudes and string effective action
- Supergraph analysis of the one-loop divergences in \(6D\), \(\mathcal{N} = (1, 0)\) and \(\mathcal{N} = (1, 1)\) gauge theories
- One-loop divergences in the \(6D\), \(\mathcal{N} = (1, 0)\) abelian gauge theory
- Partial $ \mathcal{N} $ = 2 supersymmetry breaking and deformed hypermultiplets
- Towards harmonic superfield formulation of \(\mathcal{N}=4\), \(USp(4)\) SYM theory with the central charge
- SQM with non-abelian self-dual fields: harmonic superspace description
- Five-dimensional \(\mathcal N = 1\) AdS superspace: geometry, off-shell multiplets and dynamics
- Hierarchy of N=8 mechanics models
- The common origin of linear and nonlinear chiral multiplets in \(\mathcal N =4\) mechanics
- \(\mathcal N=2\) quiver gauge model and partial supersymmetry breaking
- Harmonicity in \(\mathcal N=4\) supersymmetry and its quantum anomaly
- Nonholonomic Riemann and Weyl tensors for flag manifolds
- \(\mathcal{N} = 4\) superconformal Ward identities for correlation functions
- Non-renormalization of the \(V \overline{c} c\)-vertices in \(\mathcal{N} = 1\) supersymmetric theories
- Leading low-energy effective action in the 6D hypermultiplet theory on a vector/tensor background
- A low temperature expansion for matrix quantum mechanics
- Superconformal field theory in three dimensions: correlation functions of conserved currents
- Projective multiplets and hyperkähler cones in conformal supergravity
- Correlation functions of the chiral stress-tensor multiplet in \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) SYM
- Superspace de Rham complex and relative cohomology
- New realizations of the supergroup \(D(2,1;\alpha)\) in \(\mathcal N=4\) superconformal mechanics
- Effective actions in \( \mathcal{N}=1 \), D5 supersymmetric gauge theories: harmonic superspace approach
- Ultraviolet behavior of 6D supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories and harmonic superspace
- BRST analysis of the supersymmetric higher spin field models
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