# Supersymmetry anomalies in new minimal supergravity

## TL;DR

This paper analyzes quantum anomalies in four-dimensional $ ext{N}=1$ supersymmetric theories with background fields, revealing how $R$-symmetry and flavor anomalies induce supersymmetry anomalies affecting localization calculations.

## Contribution

It generalizes previous results by computing the structure of supersymmetry anomalies in non superconformal theories with Abelian flavor symmetries using off-shell supergravity.

## Key findings

- Both $R$-symmetry and flavor anomalies cause supersymmetry anomalies.
- The supercurrent transforms anomalously under rigid supersymmetry.
- Implications for supersymmetric localization on backgrounds with Killing spinors.

## Abstract

We determine the general structure of quantum anomalies for the $R$-multiplet of four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric quantum field theories in the presence of background fields for an arbitrary number of Abelian flavor multiplets. By solving the Wess-Zumino consistency conditions for off-shell new minimal supergravity in four dimensions with an arbitrary number of Abelian vector multiplets, we compute the anomaly in the conservation of the supercurrent to leading non trivial order in the gravitino and vector multiplet fermions. We find that both $R$-symmetry and flavor anomalies necessarily lead to a supersymmetry anomaly, thus generalizing our earlier results to non superconformal theories with Abelian flavor symmetries. The anomaly in the conservation of the supercurrent leads to an anomalous transformation for the supercurrent under rigid supersymmetry on bosonic backgrounds that admit new minimal Killing spinors. The resulting deformation of the supersymmetry algebra has implications for supersymmetric localization computations on such backgrounds.