Download or read book Introduction to Supersymmetry and Supergravity written by Peter C. West and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1986 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of the first edition of "Introduction to Supersymmetry and Supergravity" was a remarkable success. This second edition contains a substantial amount of new material especially on two-dimensional supersymmetry algebras, their irreducible representations as well as rigid and local (i.e. supergravity) theories of 2-dimensional supersymmetry both in x-space and superspace. These theories include the actions for the superstring and the heterotic string. In addition, a chapter is devoted to a discussion on superconformal algebras in two dimensions and contains an account of super operator product expansion.