Super coset space geometry

Super coset spaces play an important role in the formulation of supersymmetric theories. The aim of this paper is to review and discuss the geometry of super coset spaces with particular focus on the way the geometrical structures of the super coset space G/H are inherited from the super Lie group G. The isometries of the super coset space are discussed and a definition of Killing supervectors - the supervectors associated with infinitesimal isometries - is given that can be easily extended to spaces other than coset spaces.Comment: 49 pages, 1 figure, AFK previously published under the name A. F. Schunc

Mooses, Topology and Higgs

New theories of electroweak symmetry breaking have recently been constructed that stabilize the weak scale and do not rely upon supersymmetry. In these theories the Higgs boson is a weakly coupled pseudo-Goldstone boson. In this note we study the class of theories that can be described by theory spaces and show that the fundamental group of theory space describes all the relevant classical physics in the low energy theory. The relationship between the low energy physics and the topological properties of theory space allow a systematic method for constructing theory spaces that give any desired low energy particle content and potential. This provides us with tools for analyzing and constructing new theories of electroweak symmetry breaking.Comment: 16 pages, 11 figure

Japanese Vision of Commissioning Process and Asian View

Building Services Commissioning Association, BSCA, has been established in Japan as an NPO in order to propagate the building commissioning, especially HVAC commissioning, process among building and building services construction and maintenance society in Japan. As most engineers have not been so happy as the minimum initial cost policy used to goes first without clear definition of performance on environmental quality and energy efficiency, commissioning concept, after seven years of discussions in SHASE and IEA/ECBCS/Annex-40 shadow committee and others, has become popular and recognized as one of the most important process to be introduced, if only building owners and public sectors concerning building construction, energy conservation and environmental preservation come to understand true value of it. In Hong Kong the Commissioning Center was established in 2002 affiliated with the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education and with from short to long term training programs how to propagate the process and bring up commissioning engineers. In Mainland China and Korea commissioning process is not well recognized yet except in a sense of performance diagnostics and fault detections

Electronic structure of spheroidal fullerenes in a weak uniform magnetic field: a continuum field-theory model

The effect of a weak uniform magnetic field on the electronic structure of slightly deformed fullerene molecules is studied within the continuum field-theory model. It is shown how the existing due to spheroidal deformation fine structure of the electronic energy spectrum modifies in the presence of the magnetic field. Hyperfine splitting of the energy-levels dictated by the topological defects is also influenced by the weak external magnetic field. Exact analytical solutions for zero-energy modes are found.Comment: 8 page