Can supersymmetric theories be bosonized?

We investigate the possibility of transforming supersymmetric theories into pure;y fermionic or bosonic forms. The supersymmetric sine-Gordon lagrangian is rewritten in a purely fermionic form, and the Fermi equivalent of the original supersymmetry transformation is derived. This transformation represents an invariance only at the quantum level, when the effects of the chiral anomaly have been taken into account. When supersymmetric theories are written in purely bosonic forms, a non-local bosonic transformation takes place of the supersymmetry transformation. In both cases the supersymmetry algebra, as realized on the fields, is lost.     

Non-local Conservation Laws and Flow Equations¶ for Supersymmetric Integrable Hierarchies

An infinite series of Grassmann-odd and Grassmann-even flow equations is defined for a class of supersymmetric integrable hierarchies associated with loop superalgebras. All these flows commute with the mutually commuting bosonic ones originally considered to define these hierarchies and, hence, provide extra fermionic and bosonic symmetries that include the built-in N=1 supersymmetry transformation. The corresponding non-local conserved quantities are also constructed. As an example, the particular case of the principal supersymmetric hierarchies associated with the affine superalgebras with a fermionic simple root system is discussed in detail.     

Bosonization of supersymmetric KdV equation

Bosonization approach to the classical supersymmetric systems is presented. By introducing the multi-fermionic parameters in the expansions of the superfields, the N=1 supersymmetric KdV (sKdV) system is transformed to a system of coupled bosonic equations. The method can be applied to any fermionic systems. By solving the coupled bosonic equations, some novel types of exact solutions can be explicitly obtained. Especially, the richness of the localized excitations of the supersymmetric integrable system is discovered. The rich multi-soliton solutions obtained here have not yet been obtained by using other methods. However, the traditional known multi-soliton solutions can also not be obtained by the bosonization approach of this Letter. Some open problems on the bosonization of the supersymmetric integrable models are proposed in the both classical and quantum levels.     

Regge behaviour at high energy and more on boson-fermion interaction

Our approach to the problem of boson-fermion interaction in the conventional RFT stems from a model of super-symmetric version in 2-space and 1 time world. Basically it is stressed here that at super high energy there may not be any distinction between the bosonic and fermionic modes and may be treated on a common footing. Usual renormalization group approach for the vertex function has been adopted and the characteristic functionsβ ₁ andβ ₂ are calculated and the possibility of having stable points in the theory has been studied.     

The Hamiltonian structure of the N = 2 supersymmetric GNLS hierarchy

The first two Hamiltonian structures and the recursion operator connecting all evolution systems and Hamiltonian structures of the N = 2 supersymmetric (n, m)-GNLS hierarchy are constructed in terms of N = 2 superfields in two different superfield bases with local evolution equations. Their bosonic limits are studied in detail. New local and nonlocal bosonic and fermionic integrals both for the N = 2 supersymmetric (n, m)-GNLS hierarchy and its bosonic counterparts are derived. As an example, in the n = 1, m = 1 case, the algebra and the symmetry transformations for some of them are worked out and a rich N = 4 supersymmetry structure is uncovered.     

Instanton effects in N = 2 supersymmetric quantum mechanics

Supersymmetric quantum mechanics with several bosonic and fermionic dynamic variables is considered. Two different N = 2 supersymmetric models involving instantons are discussed in detail. Instantons fail to break supersymmetry in one of the models considered. The vacuum state is degenerate in this model which generally results in spontaneous breaking of internal left-right symmetry. In another model supersymmetry is destroyed dynamically due to special complex instanton solutions. Possible implications for SUSY field theories are discussed.     

Cliffordization, spin, and fermionic star products

Deformation quantization is a powerful tool for quantizing theories with bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom. The star products involved generate the mathematical structures which have recently been used in attempts to analyze the algebraic properties of quantum field theory. In the context of quantum mechanics they provide a quantization procedure for systems with either bosonic or fermionic degrees of freedom. We illustrate this procedure for a number of physical examples, including bosonic, fermionic, and supersymmetric oscillators. We show how non-relativistic and relativistic particles with spin can be naturally described in this framework.     

Supersymmetric Chern–Simons vortex systems and extended supersymmetric quantum mechanics algebras

We study N=2$N=2$ supersymmetric Chern–Simons Higgs models in (2+1)$(2+1)$-dimensions and the existence of extended underlying supersymmetric quantum mechanics algebras. Our findings indicate that the fermionic zero modes quantum system in conjunction with the system of zero modes corresponding to bosonic fluctuations, are related to an N=4$N=4$ extended 1-dimensional supersymmetric algebra with central charge, a result closely connected to the N=2$N=2$ spacetime supersymmetry of the total system. We also add soft supersymmetric terms to the fermionic sector in order to examine how this affects the index of the corresponding Dirac operator, with the latter characterizing the degeneracy of the solitonic solutions. In addition, we analyze the impact of the underlying supersymmetric quantum algebras to the zero mode bosonic fluctuations. This is relevant to the quantum theory of self-dual vortices and particularly for the symmetries of the metric of the space of vortices solutions and also for the non-zero mode states of bosonic fluctuations.     

All NSR-models in terms of bosonic strings: An explicit derivation

We construct the open and closed string NSR-models in terms ofD15 bosonic string theories. All anticommuting NSR-operators are obtained after fermionizing 4 bosonic dimensions, and the NSR-Hilbert spaces are embedded as linear subspaces of the bosonic Hilbert spaces. We thus show the existence of various 10D supersymmetric sectors of the state spaces ofD=26 consistent bosonic strings.     

Shape Invariant Potential and Semi-Unitary Transformations (SUT) for Supersymmetry Harmonic Oscillator in <Emphasis Type="Italic">T</Emphasis><Superscript>4</Superscript>-Space

Constructing the Semi-Unitary Transformations (SUT) to obtain the supersymmetric partner Hamiltonians for a one dimensional harmonic oscillator, it has been shown that under this transformation the supersymmetric partner loses its ground state in T ⁴-space while its eigen functions constitute a complete orthonormal basis in a subspace of full Hilbert space.     

Fermionic flows and tau function of the N = (1|1) superconformal Toda lattice hierarchy

An infinite class of fermionic flows of the N = (1|1) superconformal Toda lattice hierarchy is constructed and their algebraic structure is studied. We completely solve the semi-infinite N = (1|1) Toda lattice and chain hierarchies and derive their tau functions, which may be relevant for building supersymmetric matrix models. Their bosonic limit is also discussed.     

N=2 boundary supersymmetry in integrable models and perturbed boundary conformal field theory

Boundary integrable models with N=2 supersymmetry are considered. For the simplest boundary N=2 superconformal minimal model with a Chebyshev bulk perturbation we show explicitly how fermionic boundary degrees of freedom arise naturally in the boundary perturbation in order to maintain integrability and N=2 supersymmetry. A new boundary reflection matrix is obtained for this model and N=2 boundary superalgebra is studied. A factorized scattering theory is proposed for a N=2 supersymmetric extension of the boundary sine-Gordon model with either (i) fermionic or (ii) bosonic and fermionic boundary degrees of freedom. Exact results are obtained for some quantum impurity problems: the boundary scaling Lee–Yang model, a massive deformation of the anisotropic Kondo model at the filling values g=2/(2n+3) and the boundary Ashkin–Teller model.     

Supersymmetry and functional integration measures

We complete the proof of a recently proposed new characterization of scalar supersymmetric theories and extend this result to “non-scalar” models such as supersymmetric gauge theories. The new characterization does not make use of anticommuting variables since supersymmetry can now be directly understood as a property of certain purely bosonic functional integration measures where all fermionic variables have been “integrated out”.     

Pohlmeyer reduction of superstring sigma model

Motivated by a desire to find a useful 2d Lorentz-invariant reformulation of the AdS₅×S⁵ superstring world-sheet theory in terms of physical degrees of freedom we construct the “Pohlmeyer-reduced” version of the corresponding sigma model. The Pohlmeyer reduction procedure involves several steps. Starting with a coset space string sigma model in the conformal gauge and writing the classical equations in terms of currents one can fix the residual conformal diffeomorphism symmetry and kappa-symmetry and introduce a new set of variables (related locally to currents but non-locally to the original string coordinate fields) so that the Virasoro constraints are automatically satisfied. The resulting equations can be obtained from a Lagrangian of a non-Abelian Toda type: a gauged WZW model with an integrable potential coupled also to a set of 2d fermionic fields. A gauge-fixed form of the Pohlmeyer-reduced theory can be found by integrating out the 2d gauge field of the gauged WZW model. The small-fluctuation spectrum near the trivial vacuum contains 8 bosonic and 8 fermionic degrees of freedom with equal mass. We conjecture that the reduced model has world-sheet supersymmetry and is ultraviolet-finite. We show that in the special case of the AdS₂×S² superstring model the reduced theory is indeed supersymmetric: it is equivalent to the N=2 supersymmetric extension of the sine-Gordon model.     

Supersymmetric approach to heavy-fermion systems

We present a new supersymmetric approach to the Kondo lattice model in order to describe simultaneously the quasiparticle excitations and the low-energy magnetic fluctuations in heavy-Fermion systems. This approach mixes the fermionic and the bosonic representation of the spin following the standard rules of superalgebra. Our results show the formation of a bosonic band within the hybridization gap reflecting the spin collective modes. The density of states at the Fermi level is strongly renormalized while the Fermi surface sum rule includes n _c + 1 states. The dynamical susceptibility is made of a Fermi liquid superimposed on a localized magnetism contribution.     

Quantization of superparametrized monopoles

Classical finite-energy solutions of the SU(2) Yang-Mills-Higgs system in four-dimensional space-time are embedded in the supersymmetric extension of the theory. Finite supertranslations are constructed and are used to obtain a family of solutions to the supersymmetric field equations, parametrized by fermionic Majorana spinor parameters. The quantum theory around arbitrary classical solutions, parametrized by arbitrary bosonic (global and local) as well as fermionic (global) parameters, is constructed and discussed.     

Field theory of interacting open superstrings in fermionic ghost representation

The field theory of interacting open superstring in the fermionic ghost representation based on anticommuting and commuting ghosts, corresponding respectively to world sheet bosonic x_μ and fermionic ψ_μ coordinates, is presented. We have to revise once more the field theory of the free Ramond (R) string and starting from a general algebraic point of view we obtain that the number of degrees of freedom in the R and NS (Neveu-Schwarz) sectors are equal, permitting us to construct a supersymmetric operator. We propose to solve a specific equation guaranteeing superinvariance in order to find the R-R-NS and NS-R-R vertices in the term of the NS-NS-NS vertex.