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Beyond Discontinuities: Cosmological WFCs from the Supersymmetric Orthogonal Grassmannian

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-04-10 v1

Abstract

Recently, it has been shown that wave function coefficients (WFCs) admit a natural description in terms of the orthogonal Grassmannian, furnishing homogeneous solutions to the three-dimensional conformal Ward identities in spinor-helicity variables. This, however, presents a challenge for WFCs of conserved currents, which satisfy inhomogeneous Ward identities; correspondingly, the Grassmannian construction reproduces only their \textit{discontinuities}. In this paper, we show that N=2\mathcal{N}=2 supersymmetry, by relating spinning and non-spinning WFCs, leads to a Grassmannian formula augmented by a kinematic prefactor that captures the full WFC. Moreover, we show that the positive and negative branches of the Grassmannian formula admit a natural interpretation in terms of supersymmetric invariants, and give rise to distinct helicity amplitudes in the flat-space limit.

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@article{arxiv.2604.08512,
  title  = {Beyond Discontinuities: Cosmological WFCs from the Supersymmetric Orthogonal Grassmannian},
  author = {Yu-tin Huang and Chia-Kai Kuo and Yohan Liu and Jiajie Mei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.08512},
  year   = {2026}
}

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