Massive twistor particle with spin generated by Souriau-Wess-Zumino term and its quantization

We present new model of D=4 relativistic massive particle with spin and we describe its quantization. The model is obtained by an extension of standard relativistic phase space description of massive spinless particle by adding new topological Souriau-Wess-Zumino term which depends on spin fourvector variable. We describe equivalently our model as given by the free two-twistor action with suitable constraints. An important tool in our derivation is the spin-dependent twistor shift, which modifies standard Penrose incidence relations. The quantization of the model provides the wave function with correct mass and spin eigenvalues.Comment: 1+15 page

Multiparticle N= 8\mathcal{N}{=}\,8 mechanics with F(4)F(4) superconformal symmetry

We present a new multiparticle model of $\mathcal{N}{=}\,8$ mechanics with superconformal $F(4)$ symmetry. The system is constructed in terms of two matrix $\mathcal{N}{=}\,4$ multiplets. One of them is a bosonic matrix $({\bf 1, 4, 3})$ multiplet and another is a fermionic $({\bf 0, 4, 4})$ one. Off-diagonal bosonic components of the $({\bf 1, 4, 3})$ multiplet are chosen to take values in the flag manifold $\mathrm{U}(n)/[\mathrm{U}(1)]^n$ and they carry additional gauge symmetries. The explicit form of the $F(4)$ supersymmetry generators is found. We demonstrate that the $F(4)$ superalgebra constructed contains as subalgebras two different $D(2,1;\alpha\,{=}{-}1/3)$ superalgebras intersecting over the common $sl(2,\mathbb{R})\oplus su(2)$ subalgebra.Comment: 1 + 23 pages, v2: minor corrections, new references and acknowledgements adde

Extension of the Shirafuji model for Massive Particles with Spin

We extend the Shirafuji model for massless particles with primary spacetime coordinates and composite four-momenta to a model for massive particles with spin and electric charge. The primary variables in the model are the spacetime four-vector, four scalars describing spin and charge degrees of freedom as well as a pair of Weyl spinors. The geometric description proposed in this paper provides an intermediate step between the free purely twistorial model in two-twistor space in which both spacetime and four-momenta vectors are composite, and the standard particle model, where both spacetime and four-momenta vectors are elementary. We quantize the model and find explicitly the first-quantized wavefunctions describing relativistic particles with mass, spin and electric charge. The spacetime coordinates in the model are not commutative; this leads to a wavefunction that depends only on one covariant projection of the spacetime four-vector (covariantized time coordinate) defining plane wave solutions.Comment: Latex, 27 pages, appendix.sty, newlfont.sty (attached

From N= 4\mathcal{N}{=}\,4 Galilean superparticle to three-dimensional non-relativistic N= 4\mathcal{N}{=}\,4 superfields

We consider the general $\mathcal{N}{=}\,4,$ $d{=}\,3$ Galilean superalgebra with arbitrary central charges and study its dynamical realizations. Using the nonlinear realization techniques, we introduce a class of actions for $\mathcal{N}{=}\,4$ three-dimensional non-relativistic superparticle, such that they are linear in the central charge Maurer-Cartan one-forms. As a prerequisite to the quantization, we analyze the phase space constraints structure of our model for various choices of the central charges. The first class constraints generate gauge transformations, involving fermionic $\kappa$-gauge transformations. The quantization of the model gives rise to the collection of free $\mathcal{N}{=}\,4$, $d{=}\,3$ Galilean superfields, which can be further employed, e.g., for description of three-dimensional non-relativistic $\mathcal{N}{=}\,4$ supersymmetric theories.Comment: 1 + 39 pages; v2: minor corrections in few formulas and many language corrections without any impact on the results; one reference and two footnotes adde

OSp(4|2) Superconformal Mechanics

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.Comment: 1+20 pages, v2: typos fixed, for publication in JHE