In three spacetime dimensions, the coupled massless spin-5/2-Einstein system exhibits a new local supersymmetry parametrised by a vector-spinor rather than a spinor as in supergravity. Although the theory does not contain dynamics, but only torsion, this hypersymmetry still formally ensures consistency. The analysis extends to arbitrary rank fermions.
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