Supplementary Notes

Class of Dr. Kaplunovsky, Fall 2025

• Superspace conventions.
• Supersymmetric Higgs mechanism.
• SQCD.
• No-renormalization theorem.
• Superfield Feynman rules.
• Wilsonian renormalization group (exerpt from the Peskin and Schroeder textbook.
• SQED superfield Feynman rules.
• SQED beta function.
• Ward–Takahashi identities for SQED.
• Konishi anomaly.
• Anomalies, gauge couplings, and NSVZ equations.
• SYM, SCQD, and Veneziano–Yankielowicz superpotentials.
• Maximal supergravities.
• Conformal and superconformal algebras.
• Testing Seiberg duality.
• Seiberg–Witten: Monodromies, Confinement, and Elliptic Curves.