N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Multiplet in Non-Adjoint Representations

TL;DR

This paper develops a formulation for N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with fields in a non-adjoint representation of SO(N), extending previous models and ensuring supersymmetry consistency through specific algebraic conditions.

Contribution

It introduces a new model for N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills multiplet in non-adjoint representations, derived from dimensional reduction of a ten-dimensional N=1 theory, with algebraic conditions ensuring supersymmetry.

Findings

Formulation of N=4 SYM in non-adjoint representations.

Derivation from ten-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills.

Consistency conditions for the representation and generators.

Abstract

We formulate a theory for N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills multiplet in a non-adjoint representation R of SO(N) as an important application of our recently-proposed model for N=1 supersymmetry. This system is obtained by dimensional reduction from an N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills multiplet in non-adjoint representation in ten dimensions. The consistency with supersymmetry requires that the non-adjoint representation R with the indices i, j, ... satisfy the three conditions \eta^{i j} = \delta^{i j}, (T^I)^{i j} = - (T^I)^{j i} and (T^I)^{[ i j |} (T^I)^{| k ] l} = 0 for the metric \eta^{i j} and the generators T^I, which are the same as the N=1 case.