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We solve the Wess-Zumino consistency conditions of \( \mathcal{N}=1 \) off-shell conformal supergravity in four dimensions and determine the general form of the superconformal anomalies for arbitrary a and c anomaly coefficients to leading non trivial order in the gravitino. Besides the well known Weyl and R-symmetry anomalies, we compute explicitly the fermionic \( \mathcal{Q} \)- and \( \mathcal{S} \)-supersymmetry anomalies. In particular, we show that \( \mathcal{Q} \)-supersymmetry is anomalous if and only if R-symmetry is anomalous. The \( \mathcal{Q} \)- and \( \mathcal{S} \)-supersymmetry anomalies give rise to an anomalous supersymmetry transformation for the supercurrent on curved backgrounds admitting Killing spinors, resulting in a deformed rigid supersymmetry algebra. Our results may have implications for supersymmetric localization and supersymmetry phenomenology. Analogous results are expected to hold in dimensions two and six and for other supergravity theories. The present analysis of the Wess-Zumino consistency conditions reproduces the holographic result of arXiv:1703.0429 and generalizes it to arbitrary a and c anomaly coefficients.
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Papadimitriou, I. Supersymmetry anomalies in \( \mathcal{N}=1 \) conformal supergravity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 40 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2019)040
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