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Infinite-Dimensional Fermionic Symmetry in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-04-28 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We establish the existence of an infinite-dimensional fermionic symmetry in four-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories by analyzing semiclassical photino dynamics in abelian N=1{\cal N}=1 theories with charged matter. The symmetry is parametrized by a spinor-valued function on an asymptotic S2S^2 at null infinity. It is not manifest at the level of the Lagrangian, but acts non-trivially on physical states, and its Ward identity is the soft photino theorem. The infinite-dimensional fermionic symmetry resides in the same N=1{\cal N}=1 supermultiplet as the physically non-trivial large gauge symmetries associated with the soft photon theorem.

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@article{arxiv.1511.07429,
  title  = {Infinite-Dimensional Fermionic Symmetry in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories},
  author = {Thomas T. Dumitrescu and Temple He and Prahar Mitra and Andrew Strominger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.07429},
  year   = {2023}
}

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