Conformal primaries of OSp ( 8 / 4 , R ) and BPS states in AdS 4 Sergio Ferrara † and Emery
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We derive short UIR’s of the OSp(8/4, R) superalgebra of 3d N = 8 superconformal field theories by the requirement that the highest weight states are annihilated by a subset of the super-Poincaré odd generators. We then find a superfield realization of these BPS saturated UIR’s as “composite operators” of the two basic ultrashort “supersingleton” multiplets. These representations are the AdS4 analogue of BPS states preserving different fractions of supersymmetry and are therefore suitable to classify perturbative and non-perturbative excitations of M-theory compactifications. UMR 5108 associée à l’Université de Savoie
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Conformal primaries of OSp ( 8 / 4 , R ) and BPS states in AdS 4
We derive short UIR’s of the OSp(8/4, R) superalgebra of 3d N = 8 superconformal field theories by the requirement that the highest weight states are annihilated by a subset of the super-Poincaré odd generators. We then find a superfield realization of these BPS saturated UIR’s as “composite operators” of the two basic ultrashort “supersingleton” multiplets. These representations are the AdS4 a...
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