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We extend existing results for the Nielsen complexity of scalar primaries and spinning primaries in four dimensions by including supersymmetry. Specifically, we study the Nielsen complexity of circuits that transform a superconformal primary with definite scaling dimension, spin and R-charge by means of continuous unitary gates from the \( \mathfrak{su} \)(2, 2|\( \mathcal{N} \)) group. Our analysis makes profitable use of Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formulas including a special class of BCH formulas we conjecture and motivate. With this approach we are able to determine the super-Kähler potential characterizing the circuit complexity geometry and obtain explicit expressions in the case of \( \mathcal{N} \) = 1 and \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 supersymmetry.
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Rabambi, P., van Zyl, H.J.R. Complexity for superconformal primaries from BCH techniques. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 95 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2022)095
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