Explicit character formulae for positive energy unitary irreducible representations of \(D = 4\) conformal supersymmetry (Q2857306)

Unitary irreducible representations (UIR) of superalgebras is certainly a central subject to any supersymmetric quantum field theory. In particular, those of superconformal algebras in various dimension is crucial to the study of string theory, especially in the context of AdS supergravity theories. Since the conformal group in 4 space-time dimensions is \(\mathrm{SO}(2,4) \simeq\mathrm{SU}(2,2)\), our protagonist is its supersymmetric extension \(\mathrm{SU}(2,2 | N)\) with \(N\) (extended) supersymmetries. The case of \(N=1\) dates to the classic works of Flato-Fronsdal and for arbitrary \(N\), the present author and Petkova in the 1980's.NEWLINENEWLINEThe current paper is part of a series of nice works by the author in computing the character formulae explicitly for the UIRs of \(\mathrm{SU}(2,2|N)\). Here, the explicit formula for \(N=1\) is given Section 4.1 and several important classes of \(N=2\) and \(4\) cases, in the remainder of the Section.