Off-shell supersymmetry via manifest invariance

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.

Keywords

• Off-shell supersymmetry
• Supersymmetric field theory
• Manifest gauge invariance
• Relationality