Particles in the superworldline and BRST
High Energy Physics - Theory
2022-07-06 v1
Abstract
In this short note we discuss N-supersymmetric worldlines of relativistic massless particles and review the known result that physical spin-N/2 fields are in the first BRST cohomology group. For N=1,2,4 emphasis is given to particular deformations of the BRST differential, that implement either a covariant derivative for a gauge theory or a metric connection in the target space seen by the particle. In the end, we comment about the possibility of incorporating Ramond-Ramond fluxes in the background.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2207.02041,
title = {Particles in the superworldline and BRST},
author = {E. Boffo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.02041},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
9 pages, for the proceedings to the 42th Winter School Geometry and Physics, Srn\'i, 15-22 January 2022