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Off-shell Supersymmetric Continuous Spin Gauge Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-02-08 v2

Abstract

We construct, for the first time, an off-shell supersymmetric continuous spin gauge theory in 4-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, in both constrained and unconstrained Lagrangian formulations. As an extension to the on-shell description [1], we employ an auxiliary field to close the algebra of supersymmetry transformations off-shell. The 4d N=1\mathcal{N}=1 massless continuous spin supermultiplet is then denoted by (Φ,H;Ψ)(\mathrm{\Phi}, \mathrm{H} \,; \mathrm{\Psi}), comprised of a dynamical and a non-dynamical complex scalar continuous spin gauge fields Φ\mathrm{\Phi} and H\mathrm{H}, as well as a Dirac continuous spin gauge field Ψ\mathrm{\Psi}. In particular, we demonstrate that the off-shell continuous spin supermultiplet, in a limit, reproduces off-shell supersymmetry transformations of the known scalar supermultiplet (0,1/2)(\,{\scriptstyle 0}\,,\, {\scriptstyle 1/2}\,), all integer-spin supermultiplets (s,s+1/2),s1(\,s\,,\, s\, {\scriptstyle +\, 1/2}\,),\, s\geqslant1, and all half-integer spin supermultiplets (s1/2,s),s1(\, s\, {\scriptstyle -\, 1/2}\,,\, s \,\,),\, s\geqslant1.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2112.10178,
  title  = {Off-shell Supersymmetric Continuous Spin Gauge Theory},
  author = {Mojtaba Najafizadeh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.10178},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

32 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; v2: two references added, accepted version in JHEP

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