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$\mathcal{N}=1$ Liouville SCFT in Four Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-11-01 v2

Abstract

We construct a four supercharges Liouville superconformal field theory in four dimensions. The Liouville superfield is chiral and its lowest component is a log-correlated complex scalar whose real part carries a background charge. The action consists of a supersymmetric Paneitz operator, a background supersymmetric Q\mathcal{Q}-curvature charge and an exponential potential. It localizes semiclassically on solutions that describe curved superspaces with a constant complex supersymmetric Q\mathcal{Q}-curvature. The theory is non-unitary with a continuous spectrum of scaling dimensions. We study the dynamics on the supersymmetric 4-sphere, show that the classical background charge is not corrected quantum mechanically and calculate the super-Weyl anomaly. We derive an integral form for the correlation functions of vertex operators.

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@article{arxiv.1810.02746,
  title  = {$\mathcal{N}=1$ Liouville SCFT in Four Dimensions},
  author = {Tom Levy and Yaron Oz and Avia Raviv-Moshe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.02746},
  year   = {2019}
}

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24 pages; revised