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We study 3d SCFTs in the superspace formalism and discuss superfields and on-shell higher spin current multiplets in free 3d SCFTs with \( \mathcal{N} \) = 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 super-conformal symmetry. For \( \mathcal{N} \) = 1 3d SCFTs we determine the superconformal invariants in superspace needed for constructing 3-point functions of higher spin operators, find the non-linear relations between the invariants and consequently write down all the independent invariant structures, both parity even and odd, for various 3-point functions of higher spin operators.
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Nizami, A.A., Sharma, T. & Umesh, V. Superspace formulation and correlation functions of 3d superconformal field theories. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 22 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2014)022
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