Classification of maximal transitive prolongations of super-Poincaré algebras

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2014.07.031zbMATH Open1331.17024arXiv1212.1826OpenAlexW2088288882MaRDI QIDQ406290FDOQ406290

Publication date: 8 September 2014

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let

V

be a complex vector space with a non-degenerate symmetric bilinear form and

m a t h b b S

an irreducible module over the Clifford algebra

C l (V)

determined by this form. A supertranslation algebra is a

m a t h b b Z

-graded Lie superalgebra

m a t h f r a k m = m a t h f r a k m_{- 2} o p l u s m a t h f r a k m_{- 1}

, where

m a t h f r a k m_{- 2} = V

and

m a t h f r a k m_{- 1} = m a t h b b S o p l u s c d o t s o p l u s m a t h b b S

is the direct sum of an arbitrary number

N g e q 1

of copies of

m a t h b b S

, whose bracket

[c d o t, c d o t] |_{m a t h f r a k m_{- 1} o t i m e s m a t h f r a k m_{- 1}} : m a t h f r a k m_{- 1} o t i m e s m a t h f r a k m_{- 1} i g h t a r r o w m a t h f r a k m_{- 2}

is symmetric,

m a t h f r a k s o (V)

-equivariant and non-degenerate (that is the condition "

s i n m a t h f r a k m_{- 1}, [s, m a t h f r a k m_{- 1}] = 0

" implies

s = 0

). We consider the maximal transitive prolongations in the sense of Tanaka of supertranslation algebras. We prove that they are finite-dimensional for

d i m V g e q 3

and classify them in terms of super-Poincar'e algebras and appropriate

m a t h b b Z

-gradings of simple Lie superalgebras.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1826

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zbMATH Keywords

supergravity Clifford algebras and spinors Tanaka prolongations super-Poincaré algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graded Lie (super)algebras (17B70)

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