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BPS Operators in N=4 SYM: Calogero Models and 2D Fermions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v3

Abstract

A connection between the gauge fixed dynamics of protected operators in superconformal Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions and Calogero systems is established. This connection generalizes the free Fermion description of the chiral primary operators of the gauge theory formed out of a single complex scalar to more general operators. In particular, a detailed analysis of protected operators charged under an su(1|1)contained in psu(2,2|4) is carried out and a class of operators is identified, whose dynamics is described by the rational super-Calogero model. These results are generalized to arbitrary BPS operators charged under an su(2|3) of the superconformal algebra. Analysis of the non-local symmetries of the super-Calogero model is also carried out, and it is shown that symmetry for a large class of protected operators is a contraction of the corresponding Yangian algebra to a loop algebra.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0602049,
  title  = {BPS Operators in N=4 SYM: Calogero Models and 2D Fermions},
  author = {Abhishek Agarwal and Alexios P. Polychronakos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0602049},
  year   = {2009}
}

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29 pages, 3 figures

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