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Structure of Carrollian (conformal) superalgebra

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-09-04 v3

Abstract

In this work, we investigate possible supersymmetric extensions of the Carrollian algebra and the Carrollian conformal algebra in both d=4d=4 and d=3d=3. For the super-Carrollian algebra in d=4d=4, we identify multiple admissible structures, depending on the representations of the supercharges with respect to the Carrollian rotation. Some of these structures can be derived by taking the speed of light c0c\to 0 limit from super-Poincar\'e algebra, but others are completely novel. In the conformal case, we demonstrate that the nontrivial Carrollian superconformal algebras for d=4d=4 and d=3d=3 are isomorphic to super-Poincar\'e algebra of d=5d=5 and d=4d=4 respectively. Remarkably, neither of these constructions requires R-symmetry to ensure the algebraic closure. Furthermore, we discover two distinct classes of super-BMS4_4 algebras, i.e. one singlet super-BMS4_4 algebra and two multiplet chiral super-BMS4_4 algebras. The singlet case arises from extending the 33D Carrollian superconformal algebra, whereas the multiplet cases do not admit this pathology due to their finite-dimensional subalgebra containing supercharges with conformal dimension Δ=±32\Delta=\pm\frac{3}{2}.

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@article{arxiv.2503.22160,
  title  = {Structure of Carrollian (conformal) superalgebra},
  author = {Yu-fan Zheng and Bin Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.22160},
  year   = {2025}
}

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44 pages, 5 figures. Published version, typos fixed, citations added