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Given a conserved and traceless energy-momentum tensor and a conformal Killing vector, one obtains a conserved current. We generalise this construction to superconformal theories in three, four, five and six dimensions with various amounts of supersymmetry by working in the appropriate superspaces.
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Korovin, Y., Kuzenko, S.M. & Theisen, S. The conformal supercurrents in diverse dimensions and conserved superconformal currents. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 134 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2016)134
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