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Pauli-Lubanski, supertwistors, and the superspinning particle

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Arvanitakis, AS 
Mezincescu, L 
Townsend, PK 

Abstract

We present a novel construction of the super-Pauli-Lubanski pseudo-vector for 4D supersymmetry and show how it arises naturally from the spin-shell constraints in the supertwistor formulation of superparticle dynamics. We illustrate this result in the context of a simple classical action for a “superspinning particle” of superspin 1/2. We then use an Sl(2;K)-spinor formalism for K=ℝ,ℂ,ℍ to unify our 4D results with previous results for 3D and 6D.

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Keywords

Superspaces, Extended Supersymmetry

Journal Title

Journal of High Energy Physics

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Journal ISSN

1126-6708
1029-8479

Volume Title

2017

Publisher

Springer Nature