Monday, August 24, 2015

supersymmetry - Do the Grassmann coordinates in the superfield formalism have any physical meaning?


In the superfield formalism we consider fields in a space who has four so called bosonic coordinates $x^{\nu}$ and four so called fermionic coordinates $\theta_1$,$\theta_2$,$\bar{\theta_1}$,$\bar{\theta_2}$.


$x^{\mu}$ are of course the physical space-time coordinates, but, do the Grassmannian coordinates have an analog interpretation like some kind of extra dimension or should I view them as a mere formal artifact?




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