Breaking of the Lorentz symmetry

superconformal transformations break the Lorentz symmetry down to . But superconformal transformations preserve the full Lorentz symmetry.

To understand the Lorentz symmetry, we define ten superfields in the following way:

(12)

(13)

simply speaking, to define , we take and substitute and

A characteristic property of superconformal transformations (as a subgroup of ) is that they commute with the standard action of the Lorentz group on .