Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield Bound - Supersymmetry

Supersymmetry

In supersymmetry, the BPS bound is saturated when half (or a quarter or an eighth) of the SUSY generators are unbroken. This happens when the mass is equal to the central extension, which is typically a topological charge.

In fact, most bosonic BPS bounds actually come from the bosonic sector of a supersymmetric theory and this explains their origin.

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