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Kartik Prabhu
You can combine BMS symmetries and twistors into a BIG (infinite-dimensional) supersymmetry algebra. Out now at a local arXiv near you: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.07186 Neveu-Schwarz supersymmetries make a cameo appearance, and there is a post-credit scene with spin-weighted spherical harmonics and Wigner 3j symbols!
Kartik Prabhu
Finally, managed to do something with twistors https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00478 ! 17 year-old self would be very happy :D. Turns out you cannot impose the twistor equation at null infinity. But, you can impose three of the six components of it! You get an infinite-dimensional space of spinor solutions, BMS twistors. Then, you can take two of these BMS twistors and generate a complex BMS symmetry at null infinity! Not sure why this works but seems pretty neat.