Flavor and Fluctuations
Abstract
The Parisi-Sourlas approach to supersymmetry implies that, in spacetime dimensions greater than 1, there is a constraint on the minimal number of flavors, in order for a field theory to define a closed system. In particular, this number is greater than 1. This does not preclude that supersymmetry can be broken, however, and the known ways of breaking supersymmetry can be taken into account from this point of view, by using the so-called Nicolai map. This procedure is well-defined for abelian gauge theories and corresponds to the construction of the so-called trivializing maps for non-abelian gauge theories, that is, still, work in progress.
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@article{arxiv.2404.03959,
title = {Flavor and Fluctuations},
author = {Stam Nicolis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.03959},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
7 pages LaTeX, uses pos.sty and JHEP.bst. Contribution to the Corfu Summer Institute 2023,"School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity" (CORFU2023)