Massive supermultiplet

A massive supermultiplet is a unitary irreducible representation of the Super-Poincaré algebra with positive timelike momentum. At rest, its nonzero supercharges become fermionic creation operators and fermionic annihilation operators. Without central charges in supersymmetry, four-dimensional extended supersymmetry has $2\mathcal{N}$ complex oscillators; a spin-$j$ Clifford vacuum gives $(2j+1)2^{2\mathcal{N}}$ states.

For a massive four-dimensional N=1 supermultiplet, superspin $j$ is the spin of its Clifford vacuum, the state annihilated by the two lowering supercharges. The creation operators produce spins $j,j,j+1/2,j-1/2$, omitting the last when $j=0$. The corresponding superspin Casimir has an eigenvalue proportional to $j(j+1)$; this representation label is distinct from the spin of any one constituent.

At rest the two complex supercharges have anticommutators $2m{\delta }_{ab}$. A normalized scalar Clifford vacuum generates four states at occupation levels $0,1,2$: two spin-zero bosonic states and one spin-half pair. Products of three creation charges vanish. The one-creation normalization is $(2m{)}^{-1/2}$ and the two-creation normalization is $(2m{)}^{-1}$. The resulting on-shell content is a complex scalar and a massive fermion with equal masses.

For $\mathcal{N}$ supersymmetries and $k$ saturated two-by-two central-charge blocks, $2k$ complex oscillators act trivially. A spin-$j$ Clifford vacuum therefore gives $(2j+1)2^{2\mathcal{N}-2k}$ states and preserves $4k$ of the $4\mathcal{N}$ real supercharges. With $\mathcal{N}=2$ and a scalar vacuum, the shortened multiplet has two boson states and two fermion states, before any CPT completion of a supermultiplet.