by Peter West (King's College, London)

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.

• Introduction
• The Supersymmetry Algebra
• Alternative Approaches to the Supersymmetry Algebra, Immediate Consequences of the Supersymmetry Algebra
• The Wess-Zumino Model
• N=1 Supersymmetric Gauge Theory: Super QED
• N=1 Yang-Mills Theory and the Noether Technique
• The Irreducible Representations of Supersymmetry
• Simple Supergravity: Linearized N=1 Supergravity
• Invariance of Simple Supergravity
• Tensor Calculus of Rigid Supersymmetry
• Theories of Extended Rigid Supersymmetry
• The Local Tensor Calculus and the Coupling of Supergravity to Matter, Superspace
• Superspace Formulations of Rigid Supersymmetric Theories
• Superspace Formulation of N=1 Supergravity
• N=1 Super-Feynman Rules
• Ultra-Violet Properties of the Extended Rigid Supersymmetric Theories
• Spontaneous Breaking of Supersymmetry and Realistic Models
• Currents in Supersymmetric Theories
• Introduction to Two-Dimensional Supersymmetric Models and Superstring Actions
• Two-Dimensional Supersymmetry Algebras
• Two-Dimensional Superspace and the Construction of Models
• Superspace Formulations of Two-Dimensional Supergravities
• The Superconformal Group
• Green Functions and Operator Product Expansions in (2,2) Superconformal Models
• Gauge Covariant Formulation of Strings