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Tools for supersymmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-02-15 v7

Abstract

This is an elementary introduction to basic tools of supersymmetry: the spacetime symmetries, gauge theory and its application in gravity, spinors and superalgebras. Special attention is devoted to conformal and anti-de Sitter algebras.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9910030,
  title  = {Tools for supersymmetry},
  author = {Antoine Van Proeyen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9910030},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

49 pages; Lectures in the spring school in Calimanesti, Romania, April 1998; v2: one typo corrected, and some clarification in the text; v3: a sign in (2.62) corrected; v4: a factor in (3.44); v5: correction to real forms of exceptional superalgebras; v6: sign correction in (3.25); v7: type in table 5: dim F(4)