Graded Majorana spinors
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Publication:5201625
DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/14/020zbMATH Open1089.81028arXivhep-th/0501252OpenAlexW2065397368MaRDI QIDQ5201625FDOQ5201625
Chris Wainwright, A. F. Kleppe
Publication date: 19 April 2006
Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: In many mathematical and physical contexts spinors are treated as Grassmann odd valued fields. We show that it is possible to extend the classification of reality conditions on such spinors by a new type of Majorana condition. In order to define this graded Majorana condition we make use of pseudo-conjugation, a rather unfamiliar extension of complex conjugation to supernumbers. Like the symplectic Majorana condition, the graded Majorana condition may be imposed, for example, in spacetimes in which the standard Majorana condition is inconsistent. However, in contrast to the symplectic condition, which requires duplicating the number of spinor fields, the graded condition can be imposed on a single Dirac spinor. We illustrate how graded Majorana spinors can be applied to supersymmetry by constructing a globally supersymmetric field theory in three-dimensional Euclidean space, an example of a spacetime where standard Majorana spinors do not exist.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0501252
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