Rigid worldsheet supersymmetry boundary term

ID: rigid-worldsheet-supersymmetry-boundary-term

In flat conformal gauge, take and rigid transformations , , with . The Majorana Grassmann bilinear interchange and Clifford algebra combine the variations into
The identity is off shell. The integrated action is invariant when its boundary flux vanishes, for example on a closed worldsheet or with compatible supersymmetric endpoint conditions. Constant spinors and ordinary derivatives here refer to flat gauge; arbitrary curved worldsheets require covariant spinor derivatives and the locally supersymmetric completion.

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