Format:
1 online resource (336 pages)
ISBN:
9781420050820
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- 1 Supersymmetry algebra and multiplets -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Dirac, Weyl and Majorana spinors -- 1.3 Simple supersymmetry algebra -- 1.4 Supersymmetry multiplets -- 1.5 Supersymmetric free-field theory -- 1.6 Extended supersymmetry -- Exercises -- References -- 2 Lagrangians for chiral superfields -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Superfield representations of the supersymmetry algebra -- 2.3 Expansion of the chiral superfield in component fields -- 2.4 Products of chiral superfields -- 2.5 Renormalizable supersymmetric Lagrangians for chiral superfields -- 2.6 Feynman rules for chiral supennultiplets -- 2.7 Mass and coupling constant renormalization -- 2.8 Non-renormalization theorems -- 2.9 Spontaneous supersymmetry breaking -- 2.10 F-term supersymmetry breaking -- Exercises -- References -- 3 Lagrangians for vector superfields -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The vector superfield -- 3.3 Supersymmetric gauge invariance -- 3.4 Spontaneously broken gauge invariance -- 3.5 D-term supersymmetry breaking -- 3.6 Supersymmetric non-abelian gauge theories -- 3.7 Supersymmetric electroweak theory -- 3.8 The renormalization group equations -- Exercises -- References -- 4 Pure supergravity -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Noether procedure -- 4.3 The globally supersymmetric Lagrangian for the supergravity multiplet -- 4.4 The locally supersymmetric Lagrangian for the supergravity multiplet -- Exercises -- References -- 5 Coupling of supergravity to matter -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The supergravity Lagrangian for the Wess-Zumino model -- 5.3 The general supergravity Lagrangian for chiral supermultiplets -- 5.4 The general supergravity Lagrangian including vector supermultiplets -- 5.5 Spontaneous supersymmetry breaking in supergravity.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780750302678
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780750302678
Language:
English
