All superparticles are BPS

Luca Mezincescu; Alasdair J. Routh; Paul K. Townsend

doi:10.1088/1751-8113/47/17/175401

All superparticles are BPS

Luca Mezincescu, Alasdair J. Routh, Paul K. Townsend

Physics

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Abstract

The generic action for an N-extended superparticle in D-dimensional Minkowski spacetime is shown to have 'hidden' supersymmetries (related by 'dualities' to the manifest supersymmetries) such that the full supersymmetry algebra is BPS-saturated; the exceptions (which include, trivially, the massless case) are those for which the manifest supersymmetry algebra is already BPS-saturated. Moreover, it is shown that any 'non-BPS' superparticle action is a gauge-fixed version of the 'BPS' superparticle action for which all supersymmetries are manifest. An example is the N = 1 massive D = 10 superparticle, which actually has N = 2 supersymmetry and is equivalent to the action for a D0-brane of IIA superstring theory.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	175401
Journal	Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Issue number	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/47/17/175401
State	Published - 2014

Keywords

superparticles
superstrings
supersymmetry

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Statistics and Probability
Modeling and Simulation
Mathematical Physics
Physics and Astronomy(all)

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