Preface |
Introduction / Chapter 1.: |
Introductory Remarks on Supersymmetry / 1.1.: |
Classical Mechanics and the Electromagnetic and Gravitational Fields / 1.2.: |
Principles of Quantum Mechanics / 1.3.: |
Symmetries and Projective Unitary Representations / 1.4.: |
Poincare Symmetry and Particle Classification / 1.5.: |
Vector Bundles and Wave Equations: The Maxwell, Dirac, and Weyl Equations / 1.6.: |
Bosons and Fermions / 1.7.: |
Supersymmetry as the Symmetry of a Z[subscript 2]-Graded Geometry / 1.8.: |
References / 1.9.: |
The Concept of a Supermanifold / Chapter 2.: |
Geometry of Physical Space / 2.1.: |
Riemann's Inaugural Talk / 2.2.: |
Einstein and the Geometry of Spacetime / 2.3.: |
Mathematical Evolution of the Concept of Space and Its Symmetries / 2.4.: |
Geometry and Algebra / 2.5.: |
A Brief Look Ahead / 2.6.: |
Super Linear Algebra / 2.7.: |
The Category of Super Vector Spaces / 3.1.: |
The Super Poincare Algebra of Gol'fand-Likhtman and Volkov-Akulov / 3.2.: |
Conformal Spacetime / 3.3.: |
The Superconformal Algebra of Wess and Zumino / 3.4.: |
Modules over a Supercommutative Superalgebra / 3.5.: |
The Berezinian (Superdeterminant) / 3.6.: |
The Categorical Point of View / 3.7.: |
Elementary Theory of Supermanifolds / 3.8.: |
The Category of Ringed Spaces / 4.1.: |
Supermanifolds / 4.2.: |
Morphisms / 4.3.: |
Differential Calculus / 4.4.: |
Functor of Points / 4.5.: |
Integration on Supermanifolds / 4.6.: |
Submanifolds: Theorem of Frobenius / 4.7.: |
Clifford Algebras, Spin Groups, and Spin Representations / 4.8.: |
Prologue / 5.1.: |
Cartan's Theorem on Reflections in Orthogonal Groups / 5.2.: |
Clifford Algebras and Their Representations / 5.3.: |
Spin Groups and Spin Representations / 5.4.: |
Spin Representations as Clifford Modules / 5.5.: |
Fine Structure of Spin Modules / 5.6.: |
The Central Simple Superalgebras / 6.1.: |
The Super Brauer Group of a Field / 6.3.: |
Real Clifford Modules / 6.4.: |
Invariant Forms / 6.5.: |
Morphisms from Spin Modules to Vectors and Exterior Tensors / 6.6.: |
The Minkowski Signature and Extended Supersymmetry / 6.7.: |
Image of the Real Spin Group in the Complex Spin Module / 6.8.: |
Superspacetimes and Super Poincare Groups / 6.9.: |
Super Lie Groups and Their Super Lie Algebras / 7.1.: |
The Poincare-Birkhoff-Witt Theorem / 7.2.: |
The Classical Series of Super Lie Algebras and Groups / 7.3.: |
Superspacetimes / 7.4.: |
Super Poincare Groups / 7.5.: |
Preface |
Introduction / Chapter 1.: |
Introductory Remarks on Supersymmetry / 1.1.: |
Classical Mechanics and the Electromagnetic and Gravitational Fields / 1.2.: |
Principles of Quantum Mechanics / 1.3.: |
Symmetries and Projective Unitary Representations / 1.4.: |