OSp(4|2) Superconformal Mechanics

May, 2009
20 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 08 (2009) 081
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Report number:
  • ITP-UH-08-09

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Abstract: (arXiv)
A new superconformal mechanics with OSp(4|2) symmetry is obtained by gauging the U(1) isometry of a superfield model. It is the one-particle case of the new N=4 super Calogero model recently proposed in arXiv:0812.4276 [hep-th]. Classical and quantum generators of the osp(4|2) superalgebra are constructed on physical states. As opposed to other realizations of N=4 superconformal algebras, all supertranslation generators are linear in the odd variables, similarly to the N=2 case. The bosonic sector of the component action is standard one-particle (dilatonic) conformal mechanics accompanied by an SU(2)/U(1) Wess-Zumino term, which gives rise to a fuzzy sphere upon quantization. The strength of the conformal potential is quantized.
Note:
  • 1+20 pages
  • 04.70.Bw
  • 11.30.Pb
  • 03.65.-w
  • 04.60.Ds
  • Superconformal symmetry
  • black holes
  • superfields
  • mechanics: conformal
  • algebra: conformal
  • sphere: fuzzy