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Indeed there is. Apologies for tooting my own horn, but you can find it in this paper, cowritten with Chris Koehl and Bill Spence. Instead of repeating the explanation, I refer you to this MathOverflow answer from a decade ago.

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From the point of view espoused in that paper, this is what remains when one takes a supersymmetric field theory in 4-dimensional Minkowski spacetime and dimensionally reduces to a line. Taking that line to be spacelike, the supersymmetry algebra breaks to the centraliser of the three-dimensional complement of that line. Schematically, the Poincaré superalgebra is $$\mathfrak{sp}= \mathfrak{so}(3,1) \oplus S \oplus V $$ where $V$ is the 4-dimensional real vector representation of $\mathfrak{so}(3,1)$ and $S$ is the 4-dimensional real spinorial representation of $\mathfrak{so}(3,1)$. Both $V$ and $S$ are irreducible representations. The Lie superalgebra is $\mathbb{Z}$-graded with $\mathfrak{so}(3,1)$ in degree $0$, $S$ in degree $-1$ and $V$ in degree $-2$. The only non-obvious bracket is $$ [S,S] = V $$ Now pick a spacelike vector $v \in V$. Then the centraliser of $v^\perp$ in $\mathfrak{sp}$ is the Lie subalgebra $$\mathfrak{so}(2,1) \oplus S \oplus V $$

Geometrically, $v^\perp$ acts trivially, $v$ is central and acts like the Laplacian, the $\mathfrak{so}(2,1) \cong \mathfrak{sl}(2,\mathbb{R})$ subalgebra is spanned by $L,\Lambda,H$ and $S$ is spanned by $\partial$, $\partial^*$, $\bar\partial$ and $\bar\partial^*$.

(You may have to complexify everything, by the way.)

Indeed there is. Apologies for tooting my own horn, but you can find it in this paper, cowritten with Chris Koehl and Bill Spence. Instead of repeating the explanation, I refer you to this MathOverflow answer from a decade ago.

Indeed there is. Apologies for tooting my own horn, but you can find it in this paper, cowritten with Chris Koehl and Bill Spence. Instead of repeating the explanation, I refer you to this MathOverflow answer from a decade ago.

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From the point of view espoused in that paper, this is what remains when one takes a supersymmetric field theory in 4-dimensional Minkowski spacetime and dimensionally reduces to a line. Taking that line to be spacelike, the supersymmetry algebra breaks to the centraliser of the three-dimensional complement of that line. Schematically, the Poincaré superalgebra is $$\mathfrak{sp}= \mathfrak{so}(3,1) \oplus S \oplus V $$ where $V$ is the 4-dimensional real vector representation of $\mathfrak{so}(3,1)$ and $S$ is the 4-dimensional real spinorial representation of $\mathfrak{so}(3,1)$. Both $V$ and $S$ are irreducible representations. The Lie superalgebra is $\mathbb{Z}$-graded with $\mathfrak{so}(3,1)$ in degree $0$, $S$ in degree $-1$ and $V$ in degree $-2$. The only non-obvious bracket is $$ [S,S] = V $$ Now pick a spacelike vector $v \in V$. Then the centraliser of $v^\perp$ in $\mathfrak{sp}$ is the Lie subalgebra $$\mathfrak{so}(2,1) \oplus S \oplus V $$

Geometrically, $v^\perp$ acts trivially, $v$ is central and acts like the Laplacian, the $\mathfrak{so}(2,1) \cong \mathfrak{sl}(2,\mathbb{R})$ subalgebra is spanned by $L,\Lambda,H$ and $S$ is spanned by $\partial$, $\partial^*$, $\bar\partial$ and $\bar\partial^*$.

(You may have to complexify everything, by the way.)

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Indeed there is. Apologies for tooting my own horn, but you can find it in this paper, cowritten with Chris Koehl and Bill Spence. Instead of repeating the explanation, I refer you to this MathOverflow answer from a decade ago.