Harmonic Superspace (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521801645)

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-Kähler and quaternionic manifolds.

Author: A. S. Galperin,E. A. Ivanov,V. I. Ogievetsky
ISBN-10: 0521801648
ISBN-13: 9780521801645
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/27/2001
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.00w x 0.90d