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Contact structures and supersymmetric mechanics

Mathematical Physics 2012-06-25 v4 High Energy Physics - Theory Differential Geometry math.MP Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We reexamine the relation between contact structures on supermanifolds and supersymmetric mechanics in the superspace formulation. This allows one to use the language of contact geometry when dealing with the d = 1, N = 2 super-Poincare algebra.

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@article{arxiv.1108.5291,
  title  = {Contact structures and supersymmetric mechanics},
  author = {Andrew James Bruce},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.5291},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

10 pages. No major revision. This version is slightly reworded to reflect the expositional nature of parts of the work. Further comments would be very much appreciated

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