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Grade 3 terms are determined by the grade 1 terms
Grade 1 terms
Requiring
Requiring
Comparison to SUGRA

Fermionic fields

In 〚Coefficients of normal form satisfy wave equations〛 we restricted ourselves with and parameterized by even functions . We will now add the terms parameterized by odd functions. According to 〚Computation of 〛 these terms are:

The first terms in both and are of grade 1, and the rest of the terms are of grade 3.

Grade 3 terms are determined by the grade 1 terms

Let us first assume that the grade 1 terms are zero, i.e and . Considering the coefficient of , we deduce that satisfies:

and a similar equation for . This implies (see 〚Higher spin conformal Killing tensors〛) that modulo finite dimensional subspaces (which we ignore):

The coefficients and come with gauge transformations:

Considering the coefficient of , we conclude that (and similarly ) are constants, and we ignore them.

Grade 1 terms

Requiring

Requiring , the “Maxwell bishop move”:

we conclude that (and similarly ) should satisfy the Maxwell equations:

Requiring

We will now consider the anticommutator of with . It is convenient to start by completing to . We have:

The term is removed by further modifying (cp Eq. (36)):

to:

Then, when we commute with , this modification produces:

which should cancel . Indeed, let us denote:

The total contribution is:

(60)

We observe:

In fact:

To cancel Eq. (60) we must impose the Dirac equation on , in the following sense. Require that exists such that:

Then we cancel Eq. (60) by choosing

To summarize:

and a similar formula for .

Comparison to SUGRA

The only fermionic superfields of Berkovits:2001ue are and . The top component of corresponds to , and the top component of to .