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| - 'The style is concise...many a reader will be grateful for the list of more extensive reviews given at the end of every chapter...the study of the book is eased by cross-referencing and the comprehensive index at the end of the book. Last but not least the book is enriched by biological sketches and anecdotes provided at the end of some sections. Zentralblatt Math, Volume 1087 (2006/13) Helmut
Rumpf (Wien) (Wien)' -
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| Description | | - Fundamental topic with a number of breakthroughs in the past decade.
- Provides overview from basics to AdS/CFT.
- Easy to read style.
- Appeals to both formal and phenomenological theorists.
- Readership of graduate students and researchers in theoretical particle physics, cosmology, and mathematics.
| | The book begins with a brief review of supersymmetry, and the construction of the minimal supersymmetric standard model and approaches to supersymmetry breaking. General non-perturbative methods are also reviewed leading to the development of holomorphy and the Affleck-Dine-Seiberg superpotential as powerful tools for analysing supersymmetric theories. Seiberg duality is discussed in detail,
with many example applications provided, with special attention paid to its use in understanding dynamical supersymmetry breaking. The Seiberg-Witten theory of monopoles is introduced through the analysis of simpler N=1 analogues. Superconformal field theories are described along with the most recent development known as "a-maximization". Supergravity theories are examined in 4, 10, and 11
dimensions, allowing for a discussion of anomaly and gaugino mediation, and setting the stage for the anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence. This book is unique in containing an overview of the important developments in supersymmetry since the publication of "Supersymmetry and Supergravity" by Wess and Bagger. It also strives to cover topics that are of interest to both formal and
phenomenological theorists. |
Readership: Graduate students and researchers in physics, cosmology, and mathematics.
| Contents |
1.
Introduction to Supersymmetry
2.
SUSY Lagrangians
3.
SUSY Gauge Theories
4.
The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
5.
SUSY Breaking and the MSSM
6.
Gauge Mediation
7.
Nonperturbative Results
8.
Holomorphy
9.
The Affleck-Dine-Seiberg Superpotential
10.
Seiberg Duality for SUSY QCD
11.
More Seiberg Duality
12.
Dynamical SUSY breaking
13.
The Seiberg-Witten Theory
14.
Superconformal Field Theories
15.
Supergravity
16.
Anomaly and Guagino Mediation
17.
Introduction to the Ads/CFT Correspondence
A.
Spinors and Pauli Matrices
B.
Group Theory
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
John Terning, Department of Physics, University of California, Davis
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