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What do the supercharges in extended supersymmetry do?

What do the supercharges in extended supersymmetry do? In $N=1$ supersymmetry there are a certain number of fermions and and equal number of bosons. You can transform all fermions to the bosons (and ...
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dimensional analysis of Grassmann integration/differentiation

There is another paradox that I need to resolve: The Berezin integration rules for Grassmann odd variables give the same result as differentiation: If $f=x+\theta\psi$ is a superfunction, the ...
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Basic Grassmann/Berezin Integral Question

Is there a reason why $\int\! d\theta~\theta = 1$ for a Grassmann integral? Books give arguments for $\int\! d\theta = 0$ which I can follow, but not for the former one.
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Superfields and the Inconsistency of regularization by dimensional reduction

Question: How can you show the inconsistency of regularization by dimensional reduction in the $\mathcal{N}=1$ superfield approach (without reducing to components)? Background and some references: ...