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Implications of N=4 superconformal symmetry in three spacetime dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-09-30 v1

Abstract

We study implications of N=4 superconformal symmetry in three dimensions, thus extending our earlier results in arXiv:1503.04961 devoted to the N=1,2,3 cases. We show that the three-point function of the supercurrent in N=4 superconformal field theories contains two linearly independent forms. However, only one of these structures contributes to the three-point function of the energy-momentum tensor and the other one is present in those N=4 superconformal theories which are not invariant under the mirror map. We point out that general N=4 superconformal field theories admit two inequivalent flavour current multiplets and show that the three-point function of each of them is determined by one tensor structure. As an example, we compute the two- and three-point functions of the conserved currents in N=4 superconformal models of free hypermultiplets. We also derive the universal relations between the coefficients appearing in the two- and three-point correlators of the supercurrent and flavour current multiplets in all superconformal theories with N=1,2,3,4 supersymmetry. Our derivation is based on the use of Ward identities in conjunction with superspace reduction techniques.

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@article{arxiv.1507.00221,
  title  = {Implications of N=4 superconformal symmetry in three spacetime dimensions},
  author = {Evgeny I. Buchbinder and Sergei M. Kuzenko and Igor B. Samsonov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.00221},
  year   = {2015}
}

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75 pages