Weaving worldsheet supermultiplets from the worldlines within

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2013.V17.N5.A2MaRDI QIDQ2511229zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors T. Hübsch

Publication date 5 August 2014

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.3135

zbMATH Keywords

adinkrasoff-shellsupersymmetryworldsheet

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of graph theory (05C90) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: Using the fact that every worldsheet is ruled by two (light-cone) copies of worldlines, the recent classification of off-shell supermultiplets of N-extended worldline supersymmetry is extended to construct standard off-shell and also unidextrous (on the half-shell) supermultiplets of worldsheet (p,q)-supersymmetry with no central extension. In the process, a new class of error-correcting (even-split doubly-even linear block) codes is introduced and classified for $p+qleq8$, providing a graphical method for classification of such codes and supermultiplets. This also classifies quotients by such codes, of which many are not tensor products of worldline factors. Also, supermultiplets that admit a complex structure are found to be depictable by graphs that have a hallmark twisted reflection symmetry.

Review text

Supersymmetry is the basic tool of contemporary high energy theoretical physics. For this reason, a classification of various supersymmetric models is an important task. In this paper the classification of off-shell worldsheet supersymmetries is undertaken. Starting from worldline supermultiplets and combining them in appropriate way (in terms of tensoring and projecting by discrete symmetries), the authors construct both off-shell (so-called ambidextrous) supermultiplets, as well as half-shell (or unidextrous) supermultiplets, of worldsheet \((p,q)\)-supersymmetry. Various constructions in the paper have a nice graphical representation in terms of the so-called adinkras. The paper should be of interest to everyone with deeper interest in supersymmetric structures. It is amusing to see how the classification presented in the paper can be conducted, however some background is necessary to fully appreciate it. In fact, the authors classify worldsheet superultiplets with \(p+q\leq 8\); technically inclined readers might take up the challenge posed by the authors and extend classification (necessarily with computer support) beyond this bound, up to \(p+q\leq 32\). In future perspective finding physical applications of various supermultiplets classified in the paper would also be of great interest.

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