An Off-Shell Superspace Reformulation of D=4, N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory

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作者
Cederwall, Martin [1 ]
机构
[1] Chalmers Univ Technol, Dept Phys, Div Theoret Phys, SE-41296 Gothenburg, Sweden
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maximal supersymmetry; superfields; supersymmetric gauge theory; SUPERGRAVITY;
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10.1002/prop.201700082
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
D = 4, N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory has an off-shell superspace formulation in terms of pure spinor superfields, which is directly inherited from the D = 10 theory. That superspace, in particular the choice of pure spinor variables, is less suitable for dealing with fields that are inherently 4-dimensional, such as the superfields based on the scalars, which are gauge-covariant, and traces of powers of scalars, which are gauge-invariant. We give a reformulation of D = 4, N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory in N = 4 superspace, using inherently 4-dimensional pure spinors. All local degrees of freedom reside in a superfield based on the physical scalars. The formalism should be suited for calculations of correlators of traces of scalar superfields.
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