String theory origins of supersymmetry

Authors
Citation
Jh. Schwarz, String theory origins of supersymmetry, NUCL PH B-P, 101, 2001, pp. 54-61
Citations number
66
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
NUCLEAR PHYSICS B-PROCEEDINGS SUPPLEMENTS
ISSN journal
09205632 → ACNP
Volume
101
Year of publication
2001
Pages
54 - 61
Database
ISI
SICI code
0920-5632(200108)101:<54:STOOS>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
The string theory introduced in early 1971 by Ramond, Neveu, and myself has two-dimensional world-sheet supersymmetry. This theory, developed at about the same time that Golfand and Likhtman constructed the four-dimensional s uper-Poincare algebra, motivated Wess and Zumino to construct supersymmetri c field theories in four dimensions. Gliozzi, Scherk, and Olive conjectured the spacetime supersymmetry of the string theory in 1976, a fact that was proved five years later by Green and myself.