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A non-renormalization theorem for chiral primary 3-point functions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-08-01 v2

Abstract

In this note we prove a non-renormalization theorem for the 3-point functions of 1/2 BPS primaries in the four-dimensional N = 4 SYM and chiral primaries in two dimensional N =(4,4) SCFTs. Our proof is rather elementary: it is based on Ward identities and the structure of the short multiplets of the superconformal algebra and it does not rely on superspace techniques. We also discuss some possible generalizations to less supersymmetric multiplets.

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@article{arxiv.1203.1036,
  title  = {A non-renormalization theorem for chiral primary 3-point functions},
  author = {Marco Baggio and Jan de Boer and Kyriakos Papadodimas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.1036},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

32 pages, added references, corrected typos

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