Canonical supermultiplets and their Koszul duals
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arXiv2304.01258MaRDI QIDQ6509488FDOQ6509488
Authors: M. Cederwall, Simon Jonsson, Jakob Palmkvist, Ingmar A. Saberi 
Abstract: The pure spinor superfield formalism reveals that, in any dimension and with any amount of supersymmetry, one particular supermultiplet is distinguished from all others. This "canonical supermultiplet" is equipped with an additional structure that is not apparent in any component-field formalism: a (homotopy) commutative algebra structure on the space of fields. The structure is physically relevant in several ways; it is responsible for the interactions in ten-dimensional super Yang-Mills theory, as well as crucial to any first-quantised interpretation. We study the algebra structure that is Koszul dual to this commutative algebra, both in general and in numerous examples, and prove that it is equivalent to the subalgebra of the Koszul dual to functions on the space of generalised pure spinors in internal degree greater than or equal to three. In many examples, the latter is the positive part of a Borcherds-Kac-Moody superalgebra. Using this result, we can interpret the canonical multiplet as the homotopy fiber of the map from generalised pure spinor space to its derived replacement. This generalises and extends work of Movshev-Schwarz and G'alvez-Gorbounov-Shaikh-Tonks in the same spirit. We also comment on some issues with physical interpretations of the canonical multiplet, which are illustrated by an example related to the complex Cayley plane, and on possible extensions of our construction, which appear relevant in an example with symmetry type .
Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Algebraic operads, cooperads, and Koszul duality (18M70)
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