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Comments on Bounds on Central Charges in N=1 Superconformal Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-07-22 v2

Abstract

The ratio of central charges in four-dimensional CFTs has been suggested by Hofman and Maldacena to lie within an interval whose boundaries are fixed by the number of supersymmetries. We compute this ratio for a set of interacting N=1 superconformal field theories which arise as RG fixed points of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories with adjoint and fundamental matter. We do not find violations of the proposed bounds, which appear to be saturated by free field theories.

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@article{arxiv.0812.0781,
  title  = {Comments on Bounds on Central Charges in N=1 Superconformal Theories},
  author = {Andrei Parnachev and Shlomo S. Razamat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.0781},
  year   = {2009}
}

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20 pages, 14 figures, harvmac, v2: a reference added