An Exceptional Supersymmetry
An Exceptional Supersymmetry It is proposed in this article a way to construct an exceptional supersymmetry distinct from the family of usual supersymmetries usually labelled by N. (N=1, N=2, N=4 and N=8). It relies on the special properties of the root system of E 8 . It is a different kind of super-symmetry in that the superpartners don't have the same charge but together the charges from all the particles in the representation form a group. In a nut-shell we are assigning spins to elements of the E8 algebra and promoting them to super-symmetry operators. The special properties of E8 allows us to do this. Introduction The similarities between N=8 Supersymmetry with 256 generators and the group E8 with 248 generators is suggestive that there might exist a combined structure with properties of both. Noting that E8 can be split into a bosonic part (a representation of O(16) ) and a fermionic part a spinor representation of O(16). We can assign a "spin" to each...