Two Outcomes for Two Old (Super-)Problems

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1999-06-23

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9906178v1

The many faces of the Superworld (World Pub 2000)

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

Invited contribution to Gol'fand Memorial Volume, M. Shifman, ed. (World Publishing, 2000). 7 pages

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I briefly review the outcomes of two very different old questions -- where global SUSY improves on ordinary QFT -- when they are in turn posed in the local, SUGRA, context. The first concerns the unexpectedly powerful role of the "Dirac square root" graded algebra relation $E=Q^2$, originally found in D=4 SUSY by Gol'fand and Likhtman, in proving positive energy theorems both in SUGRA and in ordinary gravity theories, where $E$ and $Q$ have very different -- gauge generator -- definitions. The second seeks SUGRA counterparts of the boson/fermion loop ultraviolet cancellations in SUSY models. Here the result is negative: local supersymmetry cannot overcome the infinities associated with the dimensional gravitational $\kappa^2$ even, as recently shown, in maximal D=11 SUGRA.

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