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Adinkras for Clifford Algebras, and Worldline Supermultiplets

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-21 v1

Abstract

Adinkras are a graphical depiction of representations of the N-extended supersymmetry algebra in one dimension, on the worldline. These diagrams represent the component fields in a supermultiplet as vertices, and the action of the supersymmetry generators as edges. In a previous work, we showed that the chromotopology (topology with colors) of an Adinkra must come from a doubly even binary linear code. Herein, we relate Adinkras to Clifford algebras, and use this to construct, for every such code, a supermultiplet corresponding to that code. In this way, we correlate the well-known classification of representations of Clifford algebras to the classification of Adinkra chromotopologies.

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@article{arxiv.0811.3410,
  title  = {Adinkras for Clifford Algebras, and Worldline Supermultiplets},
  author = {C. F. Doran and M. G. Faux and S. J. Gates and T. Hubsch and K. M. Iga and G. D. Landweber and R. L. Miller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.3410},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

54 pages, 8 tables with many illustrations