1999/08/25 by S. Ferrara, Ferrara, S., Alberto Zaffaroni +2
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9908163
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openalex publication_date 1999/08/25 · arxiv created 1999/09/16 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We review the unitarity bounds and the multiplet shortening of UIR's of 4 dimensional superconformal algebras SU(2,2|N), (N=1,2,4) in view of their dual role in the AdS/SCFT correspondence. Some applications to KK spectra, non-perturbative states and stringy states are given.