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Pure spinor superfields, with application to D = 3 conformal models; pp. 280–289
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Author
Martin Cederwall
Abstract
I review and discuss the construction of supersymmetry multiplets and manifestly supersymmetric Batalin–Vilkovisky actions by using pure spinors, with emphasis on models with maximal supersymmetry. The special cases of D = 3, N = 8 (Bagger–Lambert–Gustavsson) and N = 6 (Aharony–Bergman–Jafferis–Maldacena) conformal models are treated in detail.
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