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    Adinkra ‘color’ confinement in exemplary off-shell constructions of 4D, N N \mathcal{N} = 2 supersymmetry representations

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    Evidence is presented in some examples that an adinkra quantum number, χo\chi_{\rm o} (arXiv:\ 0902.3830 [hep-th]), seems to play a role with regard to off-shell 4D, N\cal N = 2 SUSY similar to the role of color in QCD. The vanishing of this adinkra quantum number appears to be a condition required for when two off-shell 4D, N\cal N = 1 supermultiplets form an off-shell 4D, N\cal N = 2 supermultiplet. We also explicitly comment on a deformation of the Lie bracket and anti-commutator operators that has been extensively and implicitly used in our work on "Garden Algebras" adinkras, and codes.Comment: 37 page

    Luscher Term for k-string Potential from Holographic One Loop Corrections

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    We perform a systematic analysis of k-strings in the framework of the gauge/gravity correspondence. We discuss the Klebanov-Strassler supergravity background which is known to be dual to a confining supersymmetric gauge theory with chiral symmetry breaking. We obtain the k-string tension in agreement with expectations of field theory. Our main new result is the study of one-loop corrections on the string theoretic side. We explicitly find the frequency spectrum for both the bosons and the fermions for quadratic fluctuations about the classical supergravity solution. Further we use the massless modes to compute 1/L contributions to the one loop corrections to the k-string energy. This corresponds to the Luscher term contribution to the k-string potential on the gauge theoretic side of the correspondence.Comment: 39 pages, 3 figures. New Calculation showing explicit k -> M - k symmetry of Energy utilizing the new figure. Discussion of non-k-dependence of Luscher term at end of last section right before Conclusion. Same version to be published in JHE

    Exploring the Abelian 4D, N\mathcal{N} = 4 Vector-Tensor Supermultiplet and Its Off-Shell Central Charge Structure

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    An abelian 4D, N\mathcal{N} = 4 vector supermultiplet allows for a duality transformation to be applied to one of its spin-0 states. The resulting theory can be described as an abelian 4D, N\mathcal{N} = 4 vector-tensor supermultiplet. It is seen to decompose into a direct sum of an off-shell 4D, N\mathcal{N} = 2 vector supermultiplet and an off-shell 4D, N\mathcal{N} = 2 tensor supermultiplet. The commutator algebra of the other two supersymmetries are still found to be on-shell. However, the central charge structure in the resulting 4D, N\mathcal{N} = 4 vector-tensor supermultiplet is considerably simpler that that of the parent abelian 4D, N\mathcal{N} = 4 vector supermultiplet. This appears to be due to the replacement of the usual SO(4) symmetry associated with the abelian 4D, N\mathcal{N} = 4 vector supermultiplet being replaced by a GL(2,R\mathbb{R})⊗\otimesGL(2,R\mathbb{R}) symmetry in the 4D, N\mathcal{N} = 4 vector-tensor supermultiplet. The MathematicaMathematica code detailing the calculations is available open-source at the HEPTHools Data Repository on GitHub.Comment: HEPTHools Data Repository available open-source at https://hepthools.github.io/Data/, added references and related content, corrected group from SU(2) to GL(2,R

    4D, N=1\mathcal{N}=1 Matter Gravitino Genomics

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    Adinkras are graphs that encode a supersymmetric representation's transformation laws that have been reduced to one dimension, that of time. A goal of the supersymmetry ``genomics'' project is to classify all 4D, N=1\mathcal{N}=1 off-shell supermultiplets in terms of their adinkras. In~previous works, the genomics project uncovered two fundamental isomer adinkras, the cis- and trans-adinkras, into which all multiplets investigated to date can be decomposed. The number of cis- and trans-adinkras describing a given multiplet define the isomer-equivalence class to which the multiplet belongs. A further refining classification is that of a supersymmetric multiplet's holoraumy: the commutator of the supercharges acting on the representation. The one-dimensionally reduced, matrix representation of a multiplet's holoraumy defines the multiplet's holoraumy-equivalence class. Together, a multiplet's isomer-equivalence and holoraumy-equivalence classes are two of the main characteristics used to distinguish the adinkras associated with different supersymmetry multiplets in higher dimensions. This paper focuses on two matter gravitino formulations, each with 20 bosonic and 20 fermionic off-shell degrees of freedom, analyzes them in terms of their isomer- and holoraumy-equivalence classes, and compares with non-minimal supergravity which is also a 20x20 multiplet. This analysis fills a missing piece in the supersymmetry genomics project, as now the isomer-equivalence and holoraumy-equivalence for representations up to spin two in component fields have been analyzed for 4D, N=1\mathcal{N}=1 supersymmetry. To handle the calculations of this research effort, we have used the Mathematica software package called Adinkra.m. This package is open-source and available for download at a GitHub Repository. Data files associated with this paper are also published open-source at a Data Repository also on GitHub.Comment: version 3, added self-gadget analysis, edited some text and references, data available at the GitHub Repository https://hepthools.github.io/Data/ that uses the Adinkra.m package available at https://hepthools.github.io/Adinkra
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