Superconformal Theories in Six Dimensions
| dc.creator | Arvidsson, Par | |
| dc.date | 2006-08-02 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T07:20:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T07:20:25Z | |
| dc.description | This thesis consists of an introductory text, which is divided into two parts, and six appended research papers. The first part contains a general discussion on conformal and superconformal symmetry in six dimensions, and treats how the corresponding transformations act on space-time and superspace fields. We specialize to the case with chiral (2,0) supersymmetry. A formalism is presented for incorporating these symmetries in a manifest way. The second part of the thesis concerns the so called (2,0) theory in six dimensions. The different origins of this theory in terms of higher-dimensional theories (Type IIB string theory and M-theory) are treated, as well as compactifications of the six-dimensional theory to supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories in five and four space-time dimensions. The free (2,0) tensor multiplet field theory is introduced and discussed, and we present a formalism in which its superconformal covariance is made manifest. We also introduce a tensile self-dual string and discuss how to couple this string to the tensor multiplet fields in a way that respects superconformal invariance. | |
| dc.description | PhD thesis, 94 pages. Adapted for arXiv use | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0608014 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0608014 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/114949 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Superconformal Theories in Six Dimensions | |
| dc.type | text |