Abstract
Abstract
The supertwistor and bi-supertwistor formulations for $$ \mathcal{N} $$
N
-extended anti-de Sitter (AdS) superspace in four dimensions, $$ Ad{S}^{4\mid 4\mathcal{N}} $$
Ad
S
4
∣
4
N
, were derived two years ago in [1]. In the present paper, we introduce a novel realisation of the $$ \mathcal{N} $$
N
-extended AdS supergroup OSp($$ \mathcal{N} $$
N
|4; ℝ) and apply it to develop a coset construction for $$ {\textrm{AdS}}^{4\mid 4\mathcal{N}} $$
AdS
4
∣
4
N
and the corresponding differential geometry. This realisation naturally leads to an atlas on $$ {\textrm{AdS}}^{4\mid 4\mathcal{N}} $$
AdS
4
∣
4
N
(that is a generalisation of the stereographic projection for a sphere) that consists of two charts with chiral transition functions for $$ \mathcal{N} $$
N
> 0. A manifestly OSp($$ \mathcal{N} $$
N
|4; ℝ) invariant model for a superparticle in $$ {\textrm{AdS}}^{4\mid 4\mathcal{N}} $$
AdS
4
∣
4
N
is proposed. Additionally, by employing a conformal superspace approach, we describe the most general conformally flat $$ \mathcal{N} $$
N
-extended supergeometry. This construction is then specialised to the case of $$ {\textrm{AdS}}^{4\mid 4\mathcal{N}} $$
AdS
4
∣
4
N
.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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