Unconventional supersymmetry via the dressing field method
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Physical review D |
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| web | https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/76n5-4mg1 |
| Doi | https://doi.org/10.1103/76n5-4mg1 |
| Keywords | Gauge theories; Supersymmetric field theories; Supersymmetric models; Supersymmetry; Symmetries; Geometry; Mathematical physics methods |
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| Description | We reconstrue unconventional supersymmetry, a notion introduced by Alvarez-Valenzuela-Zanelli, as an attempt to use the framework of supersymmetric field theory to describe fermionic matter fields and bosonic gauge fields in a unified way, as parts of a single superconnection. It hinges upon the so-called matter ansatz. Unfortunately, the formal and conceptual status of the ansatz has remained unclear, preventing unconventional supersymmetry to be used in a principled way as a general approach beyond the model in which it was first considered. In this paper, we lift this restriction by showing that the ansatz is a special case of the dressing field method, a new systematic tool to exhibit the gauge-invariant content of general-relativistic gauge field theories. |
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