The Many Faces of the Superworld: Yuri Golfand Memorial Vol

ISBN-13: 9789810242060 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 688 str.

M. A. Shifman

Opis

This invaluable volume is dedicated to the memory of Yuri Golfand, one of the pioneers of supersymmetry. Together with his students, he constructed in 1970 the superextension of the Poincare algebra and obtained the first four-dimensional supersymmetric field theory, a version of supersymmetric QED. Golfand died in 1994 in Israel.

Did the pioneers of supersymmetry -- Scherk, Ramond, Golfand, Volkov, Wess, Zumino and others -- foresee in the early 1970's that they would be opening to us the gates of the superworld? The superworld will become one of the most important components of our understanding of Nature -- a component that will stay with us forever.

This book is a compilation of the original papers and review articles, devoted to various aspects of supersymmetry, written by the outstanding researchers in the field, theorists whose work shaped the present day theory and continues to make a profound impact on the frontier directions of the current development. A wide range of topics is covered -- from other formal subtle results in the superstring theory to supersymmetry-based phenomenology. Most of the articles have been prepared specifically for this volume.