Superspace geometry and classification of supersymmetric extended objects
- 29 May 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 62 (22) , 2579-2582
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.62.2579
Abstract
We provide a geometrical interpretation of the classification of supersymmetric p-dimensional extended objects. Specifically, we show that the action describing such an object exists by virtue of a nontrivial class of the (p+2)th Chevalley-Eilenberg cohomology of superspace, considered as the super translation group.Keywords
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