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oapen-20.500.12657-508742022-02-24T16:17:56Z Ideas and Methods of Supersymmetry and Supergravity or A Walk Through Superspace Kuzenko, Sergio M. Astrophysics Nuclear physics bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PH Physics::PHV Applied physics::PHVB Astrophysics bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PH Physics::PHN Nuclear physics Ideas and Methods of Supersymmetry and Supergravity: Or a Walk Through Superspace provides a comprehensive, detailed, and self-contained account of four dimensional simple supersymmetry and supergravity. Throughout the book, the authors cultivate their material in detail with calculations and full discussions of the fundamental ideas and motivations. They develop the subject in its superfield formulations but where appropriate for illustration, analogy, and comparison with conventional field theory, they use the component formulation. The book discusses many subjects that, until now, can only be found in the research literature. In addition, it presents a plethora of new results. Combining classical and quantum field theory with group theory, differential geometry, and algebra, the book begins with a solid mathematical background that is used in the rest of the book. The next chapter covers algebraic aspects of supersymmetry and the concepts of superspace and superfield. In the following chapters, the book presents classical and quantum superfield theory and the superfield formulation of supergravity. A synthesis of results and methods developed in the book, the final chapter concludes with the theory of effective action in curved superspaces. After studying this book, readers should be well prepared to pursue independent research in any area of supersymmetry and supergravity. It will be an indispensable source of reference for advanced graduate students, postdoctoral faculty, and researchers involved in quantum field theory, high energy physics, gravity theory, mathematical physics, and applied mathematics. 2021-10-11T14:22:40Z 2021-10-11T14:22:40Z 1998 book ONIX_20211011_9781420050516_5 9781420050516 9780750305068 9780367802530 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50874 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 9781420050516.pdf Taylor & Francis CRC Press 10.1201/9780367802530 10.1201/9780367802530 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb c2fbf30c-ef0f-473b-8ee4-03e135ae04d0 9781420050516 9780750305068 9780367802530 SCOAP3 for Books CRC Press 656 SCOAP3 open access
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Ideas and Methods of Supersymmetry and Supergravity: Or a Walk Through Superspace provides a comprehensive, detailed, and self-contained account of four dimensional simple supersymmetry and supergravity. Throughout the book, the authors cultivate their material in detail with calculations and full discussions of the fundamental ideas and motivations. They develop the subject in its superfield formulations but where appropriate for illustration, analogy, and comparison with conventional field theory, they use the component formulation. The book discusses many subjects that, until now, can only be found in the research literature. In addition, it presents a plethora of new results. Combining classical and quantum field theory with group theory, differential geometry, and algebra, the book begins with a solid mathematical background that is used in the rest of the book. The next chapter covers algebraic aspects of supersymmetry and the concepts of superspace and superfield. In the following chapters, the book presents classical and quantum superfield theory and the superfield formulation of supergravity. A synthesis of results and methods developed in the book, the final chapter concludes with the theory of effective action in curved superspaces. After studying this book, readers should be well prepared to pursue independent research in any area of supersymmetry and supergravity. It will be an indispensable source of reference for advanced graduate students, postdoctoral faculty, and researchers involved in quantum field theory, high energy physics, gravity theory, mathematical physics, and applied mathematics.
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