Supersymmetry in Mathematics and Physics UCLA Los Angeles, USA 2010 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ferrara, Sergio (Editor), Fioresi, Rita (Editor), Varadarajan, V.S (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 2027
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Topological groups.; Lie groups.; Geometry.; Mathematical physics.; Physics.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Gravitation.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Topological Groups, Lie Groups.; Mathematical Physics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

Supersymmetry was created by the physicists in the 1970's to give a unified treatment of fermions and bosons, the basic constituents of matter. Since then its mathematical structure has been recognized as that of a new development in geometry, and mathematicians have busied themselves with expl...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Black Holes and First Order Flows in Supergravity
• Representations of Super Lie Groups: Some Remarks
• On Chiral Quantum Superspaces
• On the Construction of Chevalley Supergroup
• Indecomposable Finite-dimensional Representations of a Class o f Lie algebras and Lie Superalgebras
• On the Geometry of Super Riemann Surfaces
• Charge Orbits and Moduli Spaces of Black Hole Attractors
• Maximal Supersymmetry
• Lie Supergroups, Unitary Representations, and Invariant Cones
• Geometry of Dual Pairs of Complex Supercurves
• On the Superdimension of an Irreducible Representation.