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Relational Supersymmetry via the Dressing Field Method and Matter‐Interaction Supergeometric Framework

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Relationality is the paradigmatic conceptual core of general‐relativistic gauge field theory. It can be made manifest via the Dressing Field Method (DFM) of symmetry reduction, a systematic tool to achieve gauge‐invariance by extracting the physical degrees of freedom representing relations among field variables. Some applications of the DFM are reviewed and further expanded to the very foundations of the supersymmetric framework, where it allows to build relational supersymmetric field theory and (dis)solves crucial issues. Furthermore, a novel approach within the relational supersymmetric field theory framework giving a unified description of fermionic matter fields and bosonic gauge fields is elaborated, and thus close to Berezin's original motivation for the introduction of supergeometry in fundamental physics: a Matter‐Interaction Supergeometric Unification (MISU). This new approach stands irrespective from the ultimate empirical status of standard supersymmetric field theory, about which it is agnostic.

Source: Annalen der Physik

DOI: 10.1002/andp.202500121

Authors: Jordan François, L. Ravera