Ideas and Methods of Supersymmetry and Supergravity: Or a Walk Through Superspace provides a comprehensive, detailed, and self-contained account of four dimensional simple supersymmetry and supergravity. Throughout the book, the authors cultivate their ma
Preface. Mathematical background: The Poincar^De group, the Lorentz group; Finite-dimensional representations of ^ISpin(3,1); The Lorentz algebra; Two-component and four-component spinors; Representations of the Poincar^De group; Elements of differential