Harmonic Superspace (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521020428)

Here is the first pedagogical introduction to harmonic superspace in extended supersymmetry by the scientists who developed the method. Inspired by developments in superstring theory, it provides a systematic treatment of the quantum field theories with N=2 and N=3 supersymmetry in Harmonic Superspace. The authors present the harmonic superspace approach as a means of providing an off-shell description of the N=2 supersymmetric theories, both at the classical and quantum levels. Furthermore, they show how it offers a unique way to construct an off-shell formulation of a theory with higher supersymmetry, namely, the N=3 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Harmonic Superspace makes manifest many remarkable geometric properties of the N=2 theories, for example, the one-to-one correspondence between N=2 supersymmetric matter, and hyper-K hler and quaternionic manifolds.

Author: A. S. Galperin, E. A. Ivanov, V. I. Ogievetsky
ISBN-10: 0521020425
ISBN-13: 9780521020428
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/22/2007
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.68d