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N=4 Superconformal Mechanics and the Potential Structure of AdS Spaces

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v3 Differential Geometry

Abstract

The dynamics of an N=4 spinning particle in a curved background is described using the N=4 superfield formalism. The SU(2)local×SU(2)globalSU(2)_{local}\times SU(2)_{global} N=4 superconformal symmetry of the particle action requires the background to be a real "K\"ahler-like" manifold whose metric is generated by a sigma-model superpotential. The anti-de-Sitter spaces are shown to belong to this class of manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0004019,
  title  = {N=4 Superconformal Mechanics and the Potential Structure of AdS Spaces},
  author = {E. E. Donets and A. Pashnev and V. O. Rivelles and D. Sorokin and M. Tsulaia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0004019},
  year   = {2009}
}

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