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${\cal N}=8$ supersymmetric mechanics with spin variables from indecomposable multiplets

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-01-22 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We define two new indecomposable (not fully reducible) N=8{\cal N}=8, d=1d=1 off-shell multiplets and consider the corresponding models of N=8{\cal N}=8 supersymmetric mechanics with spin variables. Each multiplet is described off shell by a scalar superfield which is a nonlinear deformation of the standard scalar superfield XX carrying the d=1d=1 multiplet (1,8,7){\bf (1,8,7)}. Deformed systems involve, as invariant subsets, two different off-shell versions of the irreducible multiplet (8,8,0){\bf (8,8,0)}. For both systems we present the manifestly N=8{\cal N}=8 supersymmetric superfield constraints, as well as the component off- and on-shell invariant actions, which for one version exactly match those given in arXiv:2402.00539 [hep-th]. The two models differ off shell, but prove to be equivalent to each other on shell, with the spin variables sitting in the adjoint representation of the maximal RR-symmetry group SO(8){\rm SO}(8).

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@article{arxiv.2512.24692,
  title  = {${\cal N}=8$ supersymmetric mechanics with spin variables from indecomposable multiplets},
  author = {Evgeny Ivanov and Stepan Sidorov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.24692},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

1+15 pages; v2: reference list corrected

R2 v1 2026-07-01T08:46:39.378Z