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Supersymmetry anomalies in $\mathcal{N}=1$ conformal supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-05-07 v3

Abstract

We solve the Wess-Zumino consistency conditions of N=1\mathcal{N}=1 off-shell conformal supergravity in four dimensions and determine the general form of the superconformal anomalies for arbitrary aa and cc anomaly coefficients to leading non trivial order in the gravitino. Besides the well known Weyl and RR-symmetry anomalies, we compute explicitly the fermionic Q\mathcal{Q}- and S\mathcal{S}-supersymmetry anomalies. In particular, we show that Q\mathcal{Q}-supersymmetry is anomalous if and only if RR-symmetry is anomalous. The Q\mathcal{Q}- and S\mathcal{S}-supersymmetry anomalies give rise to an anomalous supersymmetry transformation for the supercurrent on curved backgrounds admitting Killing spinors, resulting in a deformed rigid supersymmetry algebra. Our results may have implications for supersymmetric localization and supersymmetry phenomenology. Analogous results are expected to hold in dimensions two and six and for other supergravity theories. The present analysis of the Wess-Zumino consistency conditions reproduces the holographic result of arxiv:1703.04299 and generalizes it to arbitrary aa and cc anomaly coefficients.

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@article{arxiv.1902.06717,
  title  = {Supersymmetry anomalies in $\mathcal{N}=1$ conformal supergravity},
  author = {Ioannis Papadimitriou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.06717},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

13+13 pages; v2: minor corrections and improvements; references added; v3: further minor typos corrected; version published in JHEP