On Supermultiplet Twisting and Spin-Statistics
High Energy Physics - Theory
2014-01-21 v2
Abstract
Twisting of off-shell supermultiplets in models with 1+1-dimensional spacetime has been discovered in 1984, and was shown to be a generic feature of off-shell representations in worldline supersymmetry two decades later. It is shown herein that in all supersymmetric models with spacetime of four or more dimensions, this off-shell supermultiplet twisting, if non-trivial, necessarily maps regular (non-ghost) supermultiplets to ghost supermultiplets. This feature is shown to be ubiquitous in all fully off-shell supersymmetric models with (BV/BRST-treated) constraints.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1203.4189,
title = {On Supermultiplet Twisting and Spin-Statistics},
author = {Tristan Hubsch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.4189},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Extended version, including a new section on manifestly off-shell and supersymmetric BRST treatment of gauge symmetry; added references