Supersymmetries and Quantum Symmetries Proceedings of the International Seminar Dedicated to the Memory of V.I. Ogievetsky, Held in Dubna, Russia, 22-26 July 1997 /

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• Other Authors: Wess, Julius (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ivanov, Evgeny A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1999.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 524
• Subjects: Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Physics.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.

This book is a collection of papers in honour of Victor I. Ogievetsky. It contains reviews on supersymmetry and supergravity, dualities, integrable systems, W (super)algebras and quantum symmetries. The reader will also find reprints of some of Ogievetsky's pioneering work on supersymmetry.

Table of Contents:

• Linear and nonlinear supersymmetries
• Covariant harmonic supergraphity for N=2 super Yang-Mills theories
• Rigid N=2 superconformal hypermultiplets
• Ectoplasm has no topology: The prelude
• From supergravity to ballbearings
• On harmonic superspace
• Harmonic approach and quaternionic Taub-NUT metric
• Supergeometry in equivariant cohomology
• Harmonics, notophs and chiral bosons
• 3-Point functions in N=4 Yang-Mills in harmonic superspace
• Harmonic superspaces for three-dimensional theories
• The Neveu-Schwarz five-brane and its dual geometries
• Superembedding approach and generalized action in string/M-theory
• Domain walls and spacetime-filling branes
• The quantum geometry of branes
• String action on adS space
• Making manifest the symmetry enhancement for coinciding BPS branes
• On some stability properties of compactified D=11 supermembranes
• U-duality and M-theory cosmology
• Brane scattering and supersymmetric ?-model geometries
• Graviton scattering in eleven-dimensional supergravity
• Nilpotent marsh and SUSY QM
• On superconformal-like transformations and their nonlinear realization
• N=2 SUSY two-boson KP hierarchy, (derivative) NLS equation and miura transformations
• Third family of N=2 supersymmetric KdV hierarchies
• Integrals of motion, supersymmetric quantum mechanics and dynamical supersymmetry
• From LG to a butterfly resolution of unitary N=2 representations
• Super-affine hierarchies and their Poisson embeddings
• 1+1 Dimensional models of dilation gravity coupled to bosons and fermions
• Finite-size energy levels of the superintegrable chiral potts model
• Characteristic polynomials for quantum matrices
• Arbitrary spin massless bosonic fields in d-dimensional anti-de sitter space
• Direct mode summation for the Casimir energy of spherical shell and compact ball
• On different BRST constructions for a given Lie algebra
• Higher-spin gauge theories - Integrability versus locality
• Global quantum anomaly
• Non-commutative space-time algebra and the spectrum of its operators
• Spinors in gravitation theory
• The notoph and its possible interactions
• Infinite-dimensional algebra of general covariance group as the closure of finite-dimensional algebras of conformal and linear groups
• Theory of dynamical affine and conformal symmetries as the theory of the gravitational field
• Structure of the supergravity group
• Grassmann analyticity and extension of supersymmetry
• Harmonic superspace: key to N=2 supersymmetry theories
• N=3 supersymmetric gauge theory
• Super-self-duality as analyticity in harmonic superspace
• List of main publications of V.I. Ogievetsky.