Structure of Carrollian (conformal) superalgebra
Abstract
In this work, we investigate possible supersymmetric extensions of the Carrollian algebra and the Carrollian conformal algebra in both and . For the super-Carrollian algebra in , 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 limit from super-Poincar\'e algebra, but others are completely novel. In the conformal case, we demonstrate that the nontrivial Carrollian superconformal algebras for and are isomorphic to super-Poincar\'e algebra of and respectively. Remarkably, neither of these constructions requires R-symmetry to ensure the algebraic closure. Furthermore, we discover two distinct classes of super-BMS algebras, i.e. one singlet super-BMS algebra and two multiplet chiral super-BMS algebras. The singlet case arises from extending the D Carrollian superconformal algebra, whereas the multiplet cases do not admit this pathology due to their finite-dimensional subalgebra containing supercharges with conformal dimension .
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
44 pages, 5 figures. Published version, typos fixed, citations added