Residual Local Supersymmetry and the Soft Gravitino
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-05-04 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We show that there exists an infinite tower of fermionic symmetries in pure , supergravity on an asymptotically flat background. The Ward identities associated with these symmetries are equivalent to the soft limit of the gravitino and to the statement of supersymmetry at every angle. Additionally, we show that these charges commute into charges associated with the (unextended) BMS group, providing a supersymmetrization of the BMS translations.
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@article{arxiv.1512.02657,
title = {Residual Local Supersymmetry and the Soft Gravitino},
author = {Steven G. Avery and Burkhard U. W. Schwab},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.02657},
year = {2016}
}
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8 pages