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Toward A Celestial Soft Symmetry Algebra in the ${\cal N}=8$ Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-02-19 v2

Abstract

From the classical SO(N=8)SO({\cal N}=8) extended superconformal algebra between the lowest N=8{\cal N}=8 multiplet in two dimensions obtained by Ademollo et al. (1976), we generalize it for the arbitrary N=8{\cal N}=8 multiplet with manifest SU(8)SU(8) symmetry containing the bosonic w1+w_{1+\infty} algebra. By modifying this N=8{\cal N}=8 supersymmetric w1+w_{1+\infty} algebra in two dimensions, we propose a consistent celestial soft current algebra between the graviton, the gravitinos, the graviphotons, the graviphotinos, and the scalars in the N=8{\cal N}=8 supergravity theory with SO(8)SO(8) (or SU(8)SU(8)) global symmetry in four dimensions initiated by de Wit and Freedman (at Stony Brook in 1977). The twenty five couplings in this celestial algebra can be written in terms of eight arbitrary couplings via the Jacobi identity.

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@article{arxiv.2509.06328,
  title  = {Toward A Celestial Soft Symmetry Algebra in the ${\cal N}=8$ Supergravity},
  author = {Changhyun Ahn and Man Hea Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.06328},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

101 pages;The title and the abstract are changed. The second paragraph of page 6 to the end of section 1 of page 9 is added. The second paragraph in page 53 and the whole pages 54-55 are included. The footnotes 13, 21 and 22 are added and to appear in JHEP,110 pages