Navigating collinear superspace

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2020)146zbMATH Open1435.81209MaRDI QIDQ2188648FDOQ2188648

Authors Timothy Cohen, Gilly Elor, Andrew J. Larkoski, Jesse Thaler 

Publication date 11 June 2020

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11032

zbMATH Keywords

Grassmann algebraspinorsuperspacessupersymmetric effective theoriessupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Exterior algebra, Grassmann algebras (15A75) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) ``Super (or ``skew) structure (16W55)

Abstract: We introduce a new set of effective field theory rules for constructing Lagrangians with $mathcalN=1$ supersymmetry in collinear superspace. In the standard superspace treatment, superfields are functions of the coordinates $(x^{m}u,het{a}^{a}lpha,het{a}^{daggerdotalpha})$, and supersymmetry preservation is manifest at the Lagrangian level in part due to the inclusion of auxiliary $F$- and $D$-term components. By contrast, collinear superspace depends on a smaller set of coordinates $(x^{m}u,eta,et{a}^{d}agger)$, where $eta$ is a complex Grassmann number without a spinor index. This provides a formulation of supersymmetric theories that depends exclusively on propagating degrees of freedom, at the expense of obscuring Lorentz invariance and introducing inverse momentum scales. After establishing the general framework, we construct collinear superspace Lagrangians for free chiral matter and non-Abelian gauge fields. For the latter construction, an important ingredient is a superfield representation that is simultaneously chiral, anti-chiral, and real; this novel object encodes residual gauge transformations on the light cone. Additionally, we discuss a fundamental obstruction to constructing interacting theories with chiral matter; overcoming these issues is the subject of our companion paper, where we introduce a larger set of superfields to realize the full range of interactions compatible with $mathcalN=1$. Along the way, we provide a novel framing of reparametrization invariance using a spinor decomposition, which provides insight into this important light-cone symmetry.

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