The Many Faces of the Superworld: Yuri Golfand Memorial Volume

by Golfand, Yuri; Shifman, Mikhail A.

• ISBN13: 9789810242060
• ISBN10: 9810242069
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

A compilation of the original papers and review articles devoted to various aspects of supersymmetry, written by outstanding researchers in the field who made pioneering contributions to the current development of the Superworld, and dedicated to Yuri Golfand, one of the discoverers of supersymmetry. DLC: Supersymmetry.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(15)
M. Shifman
Part I -- The Past
My Husband, My Love	15	(10)
Natasha Koretz-Golfand
Notes of an Old Graduate Student	25	(7)
Evgeny Likhtman
Revealing the Path to the Superworld	32	(9)
M. S. Marinov
Comment on Chronology and Numerology of Research on Supersymmetry	41	(4)
M. Shifman
On Extensions of the Algebra of Generators of the Poincare Group by Bispinor Generators	45	(9)
Yu. A. Golfand
E. P. Likhtman
On N = 1 Symmetry Algebra and Simple Models	54	(31)
Yu. A. Golfand
E. P. Likhtman
List of publications of Yu. A. Golfand	80	(5)
Part II - The Present
From Symmetry to Supersymmetry	85	(18)
Julius Wess
Duality Invariant Born-Infeld Theory	103	(8)
Daniel Brace
Bogdan Morariu
Bruno Zumino
Backlund Transformations in 10D SUSY Yang-Mills Theories	111	(15)
Jean-Loup Gervais
Representations of Extended Supersymmetries in Two Dimensions	126	(16)
A. M. Semikhatov
Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics from Light Cone Quantization	142	(14)
S. Hellerman
J. Polchinski
Supersymmetric Index of Three-Dimensional Gauge Theory	156	(29)
Edward Witten
Vacuum Structure in Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theories with any Gauge Group	185	(50)
V. G. Kac
A. V. Smilga
The Superworld	235	(13)
N. Seiberg
Brane Dynamics and Gauge Theory	248	(14)
David Kutasov
Confining Phase of Three Dimensional Supersymmetric Quantum Electrodynamics	262	(18)
M. J. Strassler
Z-D Brane Box Models and Non-Chiral Dihedral Quivers	280	(27)
Bo Feng
Amihay Hanany
Yang-Hui He
Threebranes and Conformal Gauge Theories	307	(25)
Igor R. Klebanov
Extremal Correlators in the AdS/CFT Correspondence	332	(29)
Eric D'Hoker
Daniel Z. Freedman
Samir D. Mathur
Alec Matusis
Leonardo Rastelli
Two Outcomes for Two Old (Super-)Problems	361	(9)
S. Deser
Anomalies in Supersymmetric Theories	370	(18)
M. T. Grisaru
Some Properties of Type I' String Theory	388	(10)
John H. Schwarz
Dirac Equations, Light Cone Supersymmetry, and Superconformal Algebras	398	(19)
Lars Brink
Pierre Ramond
Born-Infeld Action, Supersymmetry, and String Theory	417	(36)
A. A. Tseytlin
The Freckled Instantons	453	(23)
A. Losev
N. Nekrasov
S. Shatashvili
About R-Parity and the Supersymmetric Standard Model	476	(22)
P. Fayet
M-Theory and Hypercharge	498	(27)
N. D. Lambert
P. C. West
Constraints on Extra Time Dimensions	525	(8)
G. Dvali
G. Gabadadze
G. Senjanovic
Higher Spin Gauge Theories: Star-Product and AdS Space	533	(78)
M. A. Vasiliev
Some Thermodynamical Aspects of String Theory	611	(16)
S. A. Abel
J. L. F. Barbon
I. L Kogan
E. Rabinovici
Logarithmic Unification from Symmetries Enhanced in the Sub-Millimeter Infrared	627	(22)
N. Arkani-Hamed
S. Dimopoulos
J. March-Russell
A Toy Model for Supergravity and Superspace	649	(28)
P. van Nieuwenhuizen
Epilogue	677