Supersymmetries and dilatation

The vector field of Eq. (6) is manifestly supersymmetry-invariant. In other words, it commutes with the super-Poincare algebra, which is generated by and . It is also invariant under dilatations, if we define the weight of to be twice the weight of , . It is perhaps less straightforward to see that there are no other symmetries. For example, there are no conformal symmetries. (But the dilatation symmetry is present.) We will now prove that there are no other symmetries.

We have to compute the cohomology of in the space of vector fields of ghost number . The cohomology of at the ghost number is (see 〚Cohomology of in the space of vector fields〛):

This means that any infinitesimal symmetry can be brought to the form:

where stand for terms of the higher order in the grading defined by Eq. (14). Commuting with , we have to cancel the coefficients of all generators of (see 〚First page〛). The vanishing of the coefficient of implies that (constant in ). Similarly, , , . The vanishing of the coefficient of and imply:

The vanishing of the coefficients of and imply and (do not depend on ).