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We derive conservation laws for Dirac-harmonic maps and their extensions to manifolds that have isometries, where we mostly focus on the spherical case. In addition, we discuss several geometric and analytic applications of the latter.
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Branding, V. On Conservation Laws for the Supersymmetric Sigma Model. Results Math 72, 2181–2201 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00025-017-0756-7
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