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6d Large Charge and 2d Virasoro Blocks

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-01-14 v3

Abstract

We compute observables in the interacting rank-one 6d N=(2,0)\mathcal{N}=(2,0) SCFT at large R-charge. We focus on correlators involving Φn\Phi^n, namely symmetric products of the bottom component of the supermultiplet containing the stress-tensor. By using the moduli space effective action and methods from the large-charge expansion, we compute the OPE coefficients ΦnΦmΦn+m\langle\Phi^n\Phi^m\Phi^{n+m}\rangle in an expansion in 1/n. The coefficients of the expansion are only partially determined from the 6d perspective, but we manage to fix them order-by-order in 1/n numerically by utilizing the 6d/2d correspondence. This is made possible by the fact that this 6d6d observable can be extracted in 2d from a specific double-scaling limit of the vacuum Virasoro block, which can be efficiently computed numerically. We also extend the computation to higher-rank SCFTs, and discuss various applications of our results to 6d as well as 2d.

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@article{arxiv.2409.05944,
  title  = {6d Large Charge and 2d Virasoro Blocks},
  author = {Jonathan J. Heckman and Adar Sharon and Masataka Watanabe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.05944},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

v2: fixed typo in equation 3.10; v3: fixed minor typos

R2 v1 2026-06-28T18:39:03.463Z