scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2237389
Topology of surfaces (Donaldson polynomials, Seiberg-Witten invariants) (14J80) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)
This is an advanced textbook on supersymmetry with emphasis on the exciting progress in non-perturbative quantum field theory made since the early 1990's. Accordingly only one third of the book is devoted to introductory material and perturbative results, and the rest to non-perturbative aspects, culminating in Seiberg duality, Seiberg-Witten theory and an introduction to AdS/CFT correspondence. The book is not for beginners but requires a solid knowledge of quantum field theory, including the standard model of elemtary particles, as a prerequisite. With its appeal to physical intuition and its preference for concrete examples over general formalism it will also be no easy read for mathematicians. The style is concise, sometimes even hasty, and many a reader will be grateful for the list of more extensive reviews given at the end of every chapter. On the other hand the study of the book is eased by cross-referencing and the comprehensive index at the end of the book. Last but not least the book is enriched by biographical sketches and anecdotes provided at the end of some sections. Here is a list of the chapter headings: Introduction to supersymmetry - SUSY Lagrangians - SUSY gauge theories - The minimal supersymmetric standard model - SUSY breaking and the MSSM - Gauge mediation - Nonperturbative results - Holomorphy - The Affleck-Dine-Seiberg superpotential - Seiberg duality for SUSY QCD - More Seiberg duality - Dynamical SUSY breaking - The Seiberg-Witten theory - Superconformal field theories - Supergravity - Anomaly and gauge mediation - Introduction to AdS/CFT correspondence - Appendices (Spinors and Pauli matrices - Group theory)
- Soft-collinear supersymmetry
- Supersymmetric BCS
- A sufficient condition for counterexamples to the Nelson-Seiberg theorem
- Gentle introduction to rigorous renormalization group: a worked fermionic example
- De Sitter vacua from ten dimensions
- A formal notion of genericity and term-by-term vanishing superpotentials at supersymmetric vacua from R-symmetric Wess-Zumino models
- The Nelson-Seiberg theorem generalized with nonpolynomial superpotentials
- BPS solutions for generalised Wess-Zumino models and their applications
- Two notions of naturalness
- \(\mathcal{N} = 1\) SQCD and the transverse field Ising model
- Effective photon mass by super and Lorentz symmetry breaking
- Low-energy probes of a warped extra dimension
- BRST analysis of the supersymmetric higher spin field models
- Dilaton and massive hadrons in a conformal phase
- On the derivation of chiral symmetry breaking in QCD-like theories and S-confining theories
- A note on the analytic structure of celestial amplitudes
- The gaugino condensate from asymmetric four-torus with twists
- Parallel software for lattice \(\mathcal{N} = 4\) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory
- Dynamical supersymmetry breaking in intersecting brane models
- On gauge theories of mass
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1513904 (Why is no real title available?)
- Dualities, helicity amplitudes, and little conformal symmetry
- Dimensionally reduced SYM\({}_{4}\) at large-\(N\): an intriguing Coulomb approximation
- Dark matter cosmic string in the gravitational field of a black hole
- Elliptic hypergeometry of supersymmetric dualities
- Supersymmetry Then and Now
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5658682 (Why is no real title available?)
- Supersymmetric Solitons
- The Hilbert series of U/SU SQCD and Toeplitz determinants
- Chiral effective potential in \(4D\), \(\mathcal{N} = 1\) supersymmetric gauge theories
- Three-loop chiral effective potential in the Wess-Zumino model
- A functional treatment of small instanton-induced axion potentials
- Higher-order gaugino condensates on a twisted \(\mathbb{T}^4 \)
- Supersymmetric BCS: effects of an external magnetic field and spatial fluctuations of the gap
- New \( \mathcal{N} = 1\) dualities from orientifold transitions part I: field theory
- Remarks on Gribov mechanism on \(N=1\) supersymmetric 3D theories and the possibility of obtaining Gribov from one ABJM like theory
- Nonexistence of supersymmetry breaking counterexamples to the Nelson-Seiberg theorem
- Stable and metastable vacua in SQCD
- Supersymmetry and superstring phenomenology
- Applications of the superconformal index for protected operators and \(q\)-hypergeometric identities to \({\mathcal N}=1\) dual theories
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