Supersymmetry and Quantum Field Theory Proceedings of the D. Volkov Memorial Seminar Held in Kharkov, Ukraine, 5–7 January 1997

This volume contains important contributions to various topics of modern theoretical physics: supermembranes, supersymmetry, and quantum field theory and quantum groups. The book is dedicated to the late D. Volkov and also contains a selection of his pioneering work in spin and statistics, supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstrings.

Last interview with D.V. volkov.- p-Brane chemistry.- Intersecting branes and supersymmetry.- Properties of intersecting p-branes in various dimensions.- Super D-branes.- Volkov-akulov theory and D-branes.- Ten to eleven: It is not too late.- Aspects of superembeddings.- Superbrane actions and geometrical approach.- The M theory five-brane and the heterotic string.- A linear representation for the topological extensions of the poincaré superalgebra in d=11.- On the construction of global duality maps in strings and supermembrane theories.- Planckian energy scattering of D-branes and M(atrix) theory in curved space.- Self-duality in nonlinear electromagnetism.- Progress toward A classical (SUSY)2 4D, N=1 green-schwarz ?-model action.- N=4 supersymmetric integrable systems.- On some puzzles in N=2 supersymmetric gauge theory.- Alternative formulations of N=2 supesymmetric gauge theory in harmonic superspace.- Lie-algebraic characterization of 2D (super-)integrable models.- Universal hidden supersymmetry in classical mechanics and its local extension.- The hamiltonian structure of the “bosonic” and “fermionic” extensions of N=2 KdV hierarchy.- Mass generation in the supersymmetric Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model in an external magnetic field.- On extension of minimality principle in supersymmetric electrodynamics.- Stochastic Wess-Zumino-Witten models.- On (k ? l/q)-dimensional supermanifolds.- Let the spin and the charges unify.- Kerr spinning particle and superparticle models.- Spinons and parafermions in fermion cosets.- Exact solutions in Einstein-Yang-Mills theories.- Higher massless irreducible spins in the BRST approach.- Sonoluminescence and black holes as sources of squeezed light.- Remark concerning integrable Hamilton systems.- q-Deformed heisenbergalgebra.- Supersymmetric reflection matrices.- Deformed oscillator algebras and higher-spin gauge interactions of matter fields in 2+1 dimensions.- Universality of the R-deformed heisenberg algebra.- The dual algebra of the Jordanian GLg,h(2).- Supertraces on some deformations of heisenberg superalgebra.- Harish-chandra embedding and q-analogues of bounded symmetric domains.- q-differential calculus and deformed light-cone.- 0) and infinitesimal transformations.- Integrating a generic algebra.- On the quantization of half-integer spin fields.- S-matrix in the generalized quantization method.- Regge poles in nucleon-nucleon and nucleon-antinucleon scattering amplitudes.- SU(3) × SU(3) symmetry and the baryon-meson coupling constants.- Phenomenological lagrangian for spin waves.- Possible universal neutrino interaction.- Higgs effect for goldstone particles with spin 1/2.- Gauge fields on superspaces with different holonomy groups.- Spontaneous compactification of subspace due to interaction of the einstein fields with the gauge fields.- Hamiltonian systems with even and odd poisson brackets: duality of their conservation laws.