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Bootstrapping SCFTs with Four Supercharges

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-09-04 v2 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study the constraints imposed by superconformal symmetry, crossing symmetry, and unitarity for theories with four supercharges in spacetime dimension 2d42\leq d\leq 4. We show how superconformal algebras with four Poincar\'{e} supercharges can be treated in a formalism applicable to any, in principle continuous, value of dd and use this to construct the superconformal blocks for any d4d\leq 4. 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 d=2d=2, N=(2,2)\mathcal N=(2,2) minimal model with central charge c=1c=1 and the theory of a free chiral multiplet in d=4d=4, passing through the critical Wess-Zumino model with cubic superpotential in intermediate dimensions.

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@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

R2 v1 2026-06-22T08:46:25.100Z