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The Real Anatomy of Complex Linear Superfields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-10-03 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Representation Theory

Abstract

Recent work on classicication of off-shell representations of N-extended worldline supersymmetry without central charges has uncovered an unexpectedly vast number--trillions of even just (chromo)topology types--of so called adinkraic supermultiplets. Herein, we show by explicit analysis that a long-known but rarely used representation, the complex linear supermultiplet, is not adinkraic, cannot be decomposed locally, but may be reduced by means of a Wess-Zumino type gauge. This then indicates that the already unexpectedly vast number of adinkraic off-shell supersymmetry representations is but the proverbial tip of the iceberg.

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@article{arxiv.1202.4418,
  title  = {The Real Anatomy of Complex Linear Superfields},
  author = {S. J. Gates and J. Hallett and T. Hubsch and K. Stiffler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.4418},
  year   = {2012}
}

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21 pages, 4 figures

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