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Group-Theoretical Classification of BPS and Possibly Protected States in D=4 Conformal Supersymmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-04-03 v5 Representation Theory

Abstract

We give explicitly the reduction of supersymmetries of the positive energy unitary irreducible representations of the N-extended D=4 conformal superalgebras su(2,2/N). Further we give the classification of BPS and possibly protected states.

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@article{arxiv.1012.3685,
  title  = {Group-Theoretical Classification of BPS and Possibly Protected States in D=4 Conformal Supersymmetry},
  author = {Vladimir Dobrev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.3685},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

29 pages, LATEX; revised Introduction, rephrased Abstract, reorganized Section 4, many new references, results unchanged; V.4. added Appendix spelling out the case of (1/N)-BPS states; V.5. version is as accepted in Nucl. Phys. B, Appendix moved to another paper