Symmetries of the Celestial Supersphere
Abstract
We study the celestial CFT dual to theories with bulk supersymmetry. The boundary theory realizes supersymmetry in the spirit of the Green-Schwarz superstring: there is manifest 4d super-Poincar\'e symmetry, but no 2d superconformal symmetry. Nevertheless, we can extend the celestial sphere itself to a supermanifold -- the celestial supersphere. This provides a unified framework for describing key features of celestial holography, including conformally soft theorems, OPEs, and chiral soft algebras. Using these tools, we demonstrate that the algebra extends to a novel algebra. We also relate the supersymmetric algebra to Hamiltonian vector fields on , consistent with the expectation from twistor theory, and deduce the deformation of this algebra by a cosmological constant, . These results are all universal and independent of the specific details of the underlying theory.
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@article{arxiv.2412.13113,
title = {Symmetries of the Celestial Supersphere},
author = {Adam Tropper},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.13113},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
30 pages + 3 appendices. v2: typos fixed. v3: typos fixed in section 6.3