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The appearance of L∞ structures for supersymmetric symmetry algebras in two-dimensional conformal field theories is investigated. Looking at the simplest concrete example of the \( \mathcal{N}=1 \) super-Virasoro algebra in detail, we investigate whether an extension to a super-L∞ algebra is sufficient to capture all appearing signs.
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Blumenhagen, R., Brinkmann, M. On the existence of an L∞ structure for the super-Virasoro algebra. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 105 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2019)105
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