Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1999-07-14
Phys.Rev.D61:065009,2000
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
LaTeX file, 26 pages
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.61.065009
We construct simple twistor-like actions describing superparticles propagating on a coset superspace OSp(1|4)/SO(1,3) (containing the D=4 anti-de-Sitter space as a bosonic subspace), on a supergroup manifold OSp(1|4) and, generically, on OSp(1|2n). Making two different contractions of the superparticle model on the OSp(1|4) supermanifold we get massless superparticles in Minkowski superspace without and with tensorial central charges. Using a suitable parametrization of OSp(1|2n) we obtain even Sp(2n)-valued Cartan forms which are quadratic in Grassmann coordinates of OSp(1|2n). This result may simplify the structure of brane actions in super-AdS backgrounds. For instance, the twistor-like actions constructed with the use of the even OSp(1|2n) Cartan forms as supervielbeins are quadratic in fermionic variables. We also show that the free bosonic twistor particle action describes massless particles propagating in arbitrary space-times with a conformally flat metric, in particular, in Minkowski space and AdS space. Applications of these results to the theory of higher spin fields and to superbranes in AdS superbackgrounds are mentioned.
Bandos Igor
Lukierski Jerzy
Preitschopf Christian
Sorokin Dmitri
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