String Theory Origins of Supersymmetry
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
The string theory introduced in early 1971 by Ramond, Neveu, and myself has two-dimensional world-sheet supersymmetry. This theory, developed at about the same time that Golfand and Likhtman constructed the four-dimensional super-Poincar\'e algebra, motivated Wess and Zumino to construct supersymmetric field theories in four dimensions. Gliozzi, Scherk, and Olive conjectured the spacetime supersymmetry of the string theory in 1976, a fact that was proved five years later by Green and myself.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0011078,
title = {String Theory Origins of Supersymmetry},
author = {John H. Schwarz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0011078},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
14 pages; Presented at the conference ``30 Years of Supersymmetry''