Supersymmetry and Quantum Field Theory Proceedings of the D. Volkov Memorial Seminar Held in Kharkov, Ukraine, 5-7 January 1997 /

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• Other Authors: Wess, Julius (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Akulov, Vladimir P. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1998.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 509
• Subjects: Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum physics.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Quantum Physics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.

This volume contains important contributions to various topics of modern theoretical physics: supermembranes, supersymmetry, and quantum field theory and quantum groups. The book is dedicated to the late D. Volkov and also contains a selection of his pioneering work in spin and statistics, supersymm...

Table of Contents:

• Last interview with D.V. volkov
• p-Brane chemistry
• Intersecting branes and supersymmetry
• Properties of intersecting p-branes in various dimensions
• Super D-branes
• Volkov-akulov theory and D-branes
• Ten to eleven: It is not too late
• Aspects of superembeddings
• Superbrane actions and geometrical approach
• The M theory five-brane and the heterotic string
• A linear representation for the topological extensions of the poincaré superalgebra in d=11
• On the construction of global duality maps in strings and supermembrane theories
• Planckian energy scattering of D-branes and M(atrix) theory in curved space
• Self-duality in nonlinear electromagnetism
• Progress toward A classical (SUSY)2 4D, N=1 green-schwarz ?-model action
• N=4 supersymmetric integrable systems
• On some puzzles in N=2 supersymmetric gauge theory
• Alternative formulations of N=2 supesymmetric gauge theory in harmonic superspace
• Lie-algebraic characterization of 2D (super-)integrable models
• Universal hidden supersymmetry in classical mechanics and its local extension
• The hamiltonian structure of the "bosonic" and "fermionic" extensions of N=2 KdV hierarchy
• Mass generation in the supersymmetric Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model in an external magnetic field
• On extension of minimality principle in supersymmetric electrodynamics
• Stochastic Wess-Zumino-Witten models
• On (k ? l/q)-dimensional supermanifolds
• Let the spin and the charges unify
• Kerr spinning particle and superparticle models
• Spinons and parafermions in fermion cosets
• Exact solutions in Einstein-Yang-Mills theories
• Higher massless irreducible spins in the BRST approach
• Sonoluminescence and black holes as sources of squeezed light
• Remark concerning integrable Hamilton systems
• q-Deformed heisenberg algebra
• Supersymmetric reflection matrices
• Deformed oscillator algebras and higher-spin gauge interactions of matter fields in 2+1 dimensions
• Universality of the R-deformed heisenberg algebra
• The dual algebra of the Jordanian GLg,h(2)
• Supertraces on some deformations of heisenberg superalgebra
• Harish-chandra embedding and q-analogues of bounded symmetric domains
• q-differential calculus and deformed light-cone
• 0) and infinitesimal transformations
• Integrating a generic algebra
• On the quantization of half-integer spin fields
• S-matrix in the generalized quantization method
• Regge poles in nucleon-nucleon and nucleon-antinucleon scattering amplitudes
• SU(3) × SU(3) symmetry and the baryon-meson coupling constants
• Phenomenological lagrangian for spin waves
• Possible universal neutrino interaction
• Higgs effect for goldstone particles with spin 1/2
• Gauge fields on superspaces with different holonomy groups
• Spontaneous compactification of subspace due to interaction of the einstein fields with the gauge fields
• Hamiltonian systems with even and odd poisson brackets: duality of their conservation laws.