Off-shell supersymmetry via manifest invariance
arXiv:2504.06392 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139633
Abstract
A fundamental challenge in supersymmetric field theory is that supersymmetry transformations on field variables generally form an algebra only on-shell, i.e. upon imposing the field equations. We show that this issue is defused in a manifestly relational - and thus automatically invariant - formulation of supersymmetric field theory, achieved through the application of the Dressing Field Method of symmetry reduction, a systematic tool to exhibit the gauge-invariant content of general-relativistic gauge field theories.
V2, 9 pages, references added, revised version accepted for publication
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