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• Mikhail Shifman (ed.)

  The Many Faces of the Superworld

  Yuri Golfand memorial volume

  World Scientific, 2000

  doi:10.1142/4332

on superalgebra, supergeometry, supersymmetry, supergravity and superstrings.

Contents

Introducing the super Poincaré Lie algebra (“supersymmetry”):

• Yuri Golfand, Evgeny Likhtman,_On the Extensions of the Algebra of the Generators of the Poincaré Group by the Bispinor Generators_, in: Victor Ginzburg et al. (eds.) I. E. Tamm Memorial Volume Problems of Theoretical Physics, (Nauka, Moscow 1972), page 37,

  translated and reprinted in: Mikhail Shifman (ed.) The Many Faces of the Superworld pp. 44-53, World Scientific (2000) (doi:10.1142/9789812793850_0006)

On the DBI action for D-branes:

• Arkady Tseytlin, Born-Infeld action, supersymmetry and string theory, in: Mikhail Shifman (ed.) The many faces of the superworld, pp. 417-452, World Scientific (2000) (arXiv:hep-th/9908105, doi:10.1142/9789812793850_0025)

On type I' string theory:

• John Schwarz, Some Properties of Type I’ String Theory, in: Mikhail Shifman (ed.), The Many Faces of the Superworld, pp. 388-397 (2000) (arXiv:hep-th/9907061, doi:10.1142/9789812793850_0023)

On super Yang-Mills theory:

• Victor Kac, A.V. Smilga, Vacuum structure in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories with any gauge group, in The Many Faces of the Superworld, pp. 185-234 World Scientific (2000) (arXiv:hep-th/9902029, doi:10.1142/9789812793850_0014)

On the Witten index of D=3 N=1 super Yang-Mills theory:

• Edward Witten, Supersymmetric Index Of Three-Dimensional Gauge Theory, in: The many faces of the superworld (arXiv:hep-th/9903005)

On multi-trace operators in the AdS/CFT correspondence:

• Eric D'Hoker, Daniel Freedman, Samir Mathur, A. Matusis, Leonardo Rastelli, Extremal Correlators in the AdS/CFT Correspondence, in: The many faces of the superworld (arXiv:hep-th/9908160)

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