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Symmetries of the Celestial Supersphere

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-07-16 v3

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 bms4\frak{bms}_{4} algebra extends to a novel sbms4N\frak{sbms}_{4|\mathcal{N}} algebra. We also relate the supersymmetric L(w1+)L(w_{1+\infty}^\wedge) algebra to Hamiltonian vector fields on C2N\mathbb{C}^{2|\mathcal{N}}, consistent with the expectation from twistor theory, and deduce the deformation of this algebra by a cosmological constant, Λ\Lambda. 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