Dirac's Footsteps and Supersymmetry

DOI10.1142/S0217751X04018610zbMATH Open1080.81012arXivhep-th/0304265OpenAlexW3013872805MaRDI QIDQ3370300FDOQ3370300

Authors: Pierre Ramond 

Publication date: 7 February 2006

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: One hundred years after its creator's birth, the Dirac equation stands as the cornerstone of XXth Century physics. But it is much more, as it carries the seeds of supersymmetry. Dirac also invented the light-cone, or "front form" dynamics, which plays a crucial role in string theory and in elucidating the finiteness of N=4 Yang-Mills theory. The light-cone structure of eleven-dimensional supergravity (N=8 supergravity in four dimensions) suggests a group-theoretical interpretation of its divergences. We speculate they could be compensated by an infinite number of triplets of massless higher spin fields, each obeying a Dirac-like equation associated with the coset $F_4/SO(9)$. The divergences are proportional to the trace over a non-compact structure containing the compact form of $F_4$. Its nature is still unknown, but it could show the way to $M$-theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0304265

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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• A cubic Dirac operator and the emergence of Euler number multiplets of representations for equal rank subgroups
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• Supergravity in theory in 11 dimensions
• Realisation of Lie algebras and of representations of Lie groups in terms of harmonic oscillators

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• Dirac equations, light cone supersymmetry, and superconformal algebras

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