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The characteristic ingredient which distinguishes supersymmetric quantum field theories from ordinary ones is the occurrence of spinoral charges Q (i)a amongst the symmetry generators, which embrace at least those from Poincaré invariance (Mμv, Pμ).
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Piguet, O., Sibold, K. (1986). The Supersymmetry Algebra and its Representation on Fields. In: Renormalized Supersymmetry. Progress in Physics, vol 12. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7326-1_1
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