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The two-dimensional super-BMS3 invariant theory dual to three-dimensional asymptotically flat \( \mathcal{N}=1 \) supergravity is constructed. It is described by a constrained or gauged chiral Wess-Zumino-Witten action based on the super-Poincaré algebra in the Hamiltonian, respectively the Lagrangian formulation, whose reduced phase space description corresponds to a supersymmetric extension of flat Liouville theory.
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Barnich, G., Donnay, L., Matulich, J. et al. Super-BMS3 invariant boundary theory from three-dimensional flat supergravity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 29 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2017)029
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