Bootstrapping SCFTs with Four Supercharges
Abstract
We study the constraints imposed by superconformal symmetry, crossing symmetry, and unitarity for theories with four supercharges in spacetime dimension . We show how superconformal algebras with four Poincar\'{e} supercharges can be treated in a formalism applicable to any, in principle continuous, value of and use this to construct the superconformal blocks for any . We then use numerical bootstrap techniques to derive upper bounds on the conformal dimension of the first unprotected operator appearing in the OPE of a chiral and an anti-chiral superconformal primary. We obtain an intriguing structure of three distinct kinks. We argue that one of the kinks smoothly interpolates between the , minimal model with central charge and the theory of a free chiral multiplet in , passing through the critical Wess-Zumino model with cubic superpotential in intermediate dimensions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1503.02081,
title = {Bootstrapping SCFTs with Four Supercharges},
author = {Nikolay Bobev and Sheer El-Showk and Dalimil Mazac and Miguel F. Paulos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.02081},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
43+16 pages, 13 figures. Comments welcome. v2: Minor changes, published version