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Superfields and the Inconsistency of regularization by dimensional reduction
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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:
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What is the covariant derivative in mathematician's language?
In mathematics, we talk about tangent vectors and cotangent vectors on a manifold at each point, and vector fields and cotangent vector fields (also known as differential one-forms). When we talk ...
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I lost a factor of two in the electromagnetic field tensor
I apologize for this simple question, but I lost a factor of 2 and can't find it anymore, so now I'm looking on the internet, perhaps one of you has some information about its whereabouts. :-)
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History of Electromagnetic Field Tensor
I'm curious to learn how people discovered that electric and magnetic fields could be nicely put into one simple tensor.
It's clear that the tensor provides many beautiful simplifications to the ...
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What kind of invariants are proper time and proper length?
Under the Lorentz transformations, quantities are classed as four-vectors, Lorentz scalars etc depending upon how their measurement in one coordinate system transforms as a measurement in another ...
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What is the physical meaning of the connection and the curvature tensor?
Regarding general relativity:
What is the physical meaning of the Christoffel symbol ($\Gamma^i_{\ jk}$)?
What are the (preferably physical) differences between the Riemann curvature tensor ($R^i_{\ ...
