Maxwell Superalgebra and Superparticles in Constant Gauge Backgrounds

Sotirios Bonanos, Joaquim Gomis, Kiyoshi Kamimura, and Jerzy Lukierski
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 090401 – Published 4 March 2010

Abstract

We present the Maxwell superalgebra, an N=1, D=4 algebra with two Majorana supercharges, obtained as the minimal enlargement of a Poincaré superalgebra containing the Maxwell algebra as a subalgebra. The new superalgebra describes the supersymmetries of generalized N=1, D=4 superspace in the presence of a constant Abelian supersymmetric field strength background. Applying the techniques of nonlinear coset realization to the Maxwell supergroup we propose a new κ-invariant massless superparticle model providing a dynamical realization of the Maxwell superalgebra.

  • Received 3 December 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.090401

©2010 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Sotirios Bonanos1, Joaquim Gomis2,3, Kiyoshi Kamimura4, and Jerzy Lukierski5

  • 1Institute of Nuclear Physics, NCSR Demokritos, 15310 Aghia Paraskevi, Attiki, Greece
  • 2Departament ECM and ICCUB, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
  • 3Facultad de Física, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 22, Chile
  • 4Department of Physics, Toho University Funabashi 274-8510, Japan
  • 5Institute of Theoretical Physics, Wroclaw University, pl. Maxa Borna 9, 50-204 Wroclaw, Poland

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Vol. 104, Iss. 9 — 5 March 2010

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