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Fermionic asymptotic symmetries in massless QED

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arxiv 2307.11171 v1 pith:KGU6SJUR submitted 2023-07-20 hep-th gr-qc

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We consider soft electrons in massless QED at tree-level. The emission amplitude at leading order in the soft electron energy factorizes in a way similar to the soft photon case. We recast the soft electron factorization formula as a Ward identity of an asymptotic charge. This leads to the first example of an asymptotic fermionic symmetry in a theory with no conventional supersymmetry, suggesting that tree-level massless QED may posses an asymptotic supersymmetry algebra. Although our approach does not yet allow us to completely characterize the algebra, it suggests that subleading soft photons should feature in the anticommutator of two fermionic symmetry generators.

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