Refining the classification of the irreps of the 1D N-Extended Supersymmetry

The linear finite irreducible representations of the algebra of the 1D $N$-Extended Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics are discussed in terms of their "connectivity" (a symbol encoding information on the graphs associated to the irreps). The classification of the irreducible representations with the same fields content and different connectivity is presented up to $N\leq 8$.Comment: Two extra cases added. Reply to hep-th/0611060v2 comments adde

Decomposition and Oxidation of the N-Extended Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics Multiplets

We furnish an algebraic understanding of the inequivalent connectivities (computed up to $N\leq 10$) of the graphs associated to the irreducible supermultiplets of the N-extended Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics. We prove that the inequivalent connectivities of the N=5 and N=9 irreducible supermultiplets are due to inequivalent decompositions into two sets of N=4 (respectively, N=8) supermultiplets. "Oxido-reduction" diagrams linking the irreducible supermultiplets of the N=5,6,7,8 supersymmetries are presented. We briefly discuss these results and their possible applications.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figure

Effects of Twisted Noncommutativity in Multi-particle Hamiltonians

The noncommutativity induced by a Drinfel'd twist produces Bopp-shift like transformations for deformed operators. In a single-particle setting the Drinfel'd twist allows to recover the noncommutativity obtained from various methods which are not based on Hopf algebras. In multi-particle sector, on the other hand, the Drinfel'd twist implies novel features. In conventional approaches to noncommutativity, deformed primitive operators are postulated to act additively. A Drinfel'd twist implies non-additive effects which are controlled by the coproduct. We illustrate these features for a class of (abelian twist-deformed) 2D Hamiltonians. Suitable choices of the parameters lead to the Hamiltonian of the noncommutative Quantum Hall Effect, the harmonic oscillator, the quantization of the configuration space. The non-additive effects in the multi-particle sector, leading to results departing from the existing literature, are pointed out.Comment: 11 page

On Light-like Deformations of the Poincar\'e Algebra

We investigate the observational consequences of the light-like deformations of the Poincar\'e algebra induced by the jordanian and the extended jordanian classes of Drinfel'd twists. Twist-deformed generators belonging to a Universal Enveloping Algebra close nonlinear algebras. In some cases the nonlinear algebra is responsible for the existence of bounded domains of the deformed generators. The Hopf algebra coproduct implies associative nonlinear additivity of the multi-particle states. A subalgebra of twist-deformed observables is recovered whenever the twist-deformed generators are either hermitian or pseudo-hermitian with respect to a common invertible hermitian operator.Comment: 18 pages; final version to appear in Eur. Phys. J.

D-module Representations of N=2,4,8 Superconformal Algebras and Their Superconformal Mechanics

The linear (homogeneous and inhomogeneous) (k, N, N-k) supermultiplets of the N-extended one-dimensional Supersymmetry Algebra induce D-module representations for the N=2,4,8 superconformal algebras. For N=2, the D-module representations of the A(1,0) superalgebra are obtained. For N=4 and scaling dimension \lambda=0, the D-module representations of the A(1,1) superalgebra are obtained. For $\lambda\neq 0$, the D-module representations of the D(2,1;\alpha) superalgebras are obtained, with $\alpha$ determined in terms of the scaling dimension $\lambda$ according to: $\alpha=-2\lambda$ for k=4, i.e. the (4,4) supermultiplet, $\alpha=-\lambda$ for k=3, i.e. (3,4,1), and $\alpha=\lambda$ for k=1, i.e. (1,4,3). For $\lambda\neq 0$ the (2,4,2) supermultiplet induces a D-module representation for the centrally extended sl(2|2) superalgebra. For N=8, the (8,8) root supermultiplet induces a D-module representation of the D(4,1) superalgebra at the fixed value $\lambda=1/4$. A Lagrangian framework to construct one-dimensional, off-shell, superconformal invariant actions from single-particle and multi-particles D-module representations is discussed. It is applied to explicitly construct invariant actions for the homogeneous and inhomogeneous N=4 (1,4,3) D-module representations (in the last case for several interacting supermultiplets of different chirality).Comment: 22 page

Constrained generalized supersymmetries and superparticles with tensorial central charges. A classification

We classify the admissible types of constraint (hermitian, holomorphic, with reality conditions on the bosonic sectors, etc.) for generalized supersymmetries in the presence of complex spinors. We further point out which constrained generalized supersymmetries admit a dual formulation. For both real and complex spinors generalized supersymmetries are constructed and classified as dimensional reductions of supersymmetries from {\em oxidized} space-times (i.e. the maximal space-times associated to $n$-component Clifford irreps). We apply these results to sistematically construct a class of models describing superparticles in presence of bosonic tensorial central charges, deriving the consistency conditions for the existence of the action, as well as the constrained equations of motion. Examples of these models (which, in their twistorial formulation, describe towers of higher-spin particles) were first introduced by Rudychev and Sezgin (for real spinors) and later by Bandos and Lukierski (for complex spinors).Comment: 32 pages, LaTe

Classification of irreps and invariants of the N-extended Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics

We present an algorithmic classification of the irreps of the $N$-extended one-dimensional supersymmetry algebra linearly realized on a finite number of fields. Our work is based on the 1-to-1 \cite{pt} correspondence between Weyl-type Clifford algebras (whose irreps are fully classified) and classes of irreps of the $N$-extended 1D supersymmetry. The complete classification of irreps is presented up to $N\leq 10$. The fields of an irrep are accommodated in $l$ different spin states. N=10 is the minimal value admitting length $l>4$ irreps. The classification of length-4 irreps of the N=12 and {\em real} N=11 extended supersymmetries is also explicitly presented.\par Tensoring irreps allows us to systematically construct manifestly ($N$-extended) supersymmetric multi-linear invariants {\em without} introducing a superspace formalism. Multi-linear invariants can be constructed both for {\em unconstrained} and {\em multi-linearly constrained} fields. A whole class of off-shell invariant actions are produced in association with each irreducible representation. The explicit example of the N=8 off-shell action of the $(1,8,7)$ multiplet is presented.\par Tensoring zero-energy irreps leads us to the notion of the {\em fusion algebra} of the 1D $N$-extended supersymmetric vacua.Comment: Final version to appear in JHEP. 52 pages. The part with the complete classification of irreps (and the explicit presentation of length-4 irreps of N=9,10,11,12 and N=10 length-5 irreps) is unchanged. An extra section has been added with an entire class of off-shell invariant actions for arbitrary values N of the 1D extended supersymmetry. A non-trivial N=8 off-shell action for the (1,8,7) multiplet has been constructed as an example. It is obtained in terms of the octonionic structure constant