Supertranslations to All Orders*

Rainer Dick

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DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2010.11007                

Abstract

We calculate the transformation laws of the general linear superfield and chiral superfields under supertranslations to all orders in the translation parameters . We use the superfield formalism with complete expansions of the component fields in the coordinate shifts . The results show in particular how a general supertranslation transforms each component field of a supermultiplet into a complete superfield. The results also provide complete parametri-zations of orbits of component fields under supertranslations.

Keywords

Supersymmetry, Supermultiplets, Supertranslations

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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