On Lagrangian Formulation of Higher-Superspin Irreducible Representations of the Super-Poincaré Group

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dc.contributor.advisorGates Jr., Sylvester Jen_US
dc.contributor.authorKoutrolikos, Konstantinosen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPhysicsen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-07T06:30:20Z
dc.date.available2014-02-07T06:30:20Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractSuperspace techniques are used to construct lagrangians in terms of unconstrained prepotentials, that describe arbitrary superhelicity irreducible representations of the 4D, N=1 super-Poincaré group. We study the component structure of all these theories and extract the corresponding component lagrangian for each one of them. Furthermore we provide explicit expressions for the transformation of the components under supersymmetry. The counting of the off-shell degrees of freedom will provide useful information for the possible higher N representations. For the case of massive representations, we provide new superspace lagrangians for massive gravitino (superspin 1) and for the massive extension of non-minimal supergravity (superspin 3/2). The superspace lagrangian for supergravity will shed some light to the structure of the auxiliary superfields that are required for the construction of higher superspin theories.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/14862
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledTheoretical physicsen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPhysicsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledrepresentationsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsuperhelicityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsuper poincareen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsuperspinen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsupersymmetryen_US
dc.titleOn Lagrangian Formulation of Higher-Superspin Irreducible Representations of the Super-Poincaré Groupen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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