<i>Osp</i> (calN|4) supermultiplets as conformal superfields on partial <i>AdS</i> ₄ and the generic form of calN = 2, <i>d</i> = 3 gauge theories (Q4935003)

By the present paper the authors fill a gap in order to realize an explicit comparison between the Kaluza-Klein spectra of supergravity compactified on \(AdS_4 \times X^7\) and superconformal field theories living on the worldvolume of M2-branes. The research is performed on the following two issues. (a) The relation between the description of unitary irreducible representations of Osp\((2\mid 4)\) superalgebra seen as off-shell conformal superfields in \(d=3\) or as on-shell particle supermultiplets in \(d=4\) anti-de Sitter space. (b) The generic component form of an \(N=2\) gauge theory in three spacetime dimensions containing the supermultiplet of an arbitrary gauge group, an arbitrary number of scalar multiplets in arbitrary representations of the gauge group and with generic superpotential interactions. An important role in the present research work is played by the homogeneous Sasakian 7-manifolds which have been classified in the 1980's.