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More ${\mathcal N}=4$ superconformal bootstrap

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-07-24 v3

Abstract

In this long overdue second installment, we continue to develop the conformal bootstrap program for N=4{\mathcal N}=4 superconformal field theories in four dimensions via an analysis of the correlation function of four stress-tensor supermultiplets. We review analytic results for this correlator and make contact with the SCFT/chiral algebra correspondence of arXiv:1312.5344. We demonstrate that the constraints of unitarity and crossing symmetry require the central charge cc to be greater than or equal to 3/43/4 in any interacting N=4{\mathcal N}=4 SCFT. We apply numerical bootstrap methods to derive upper bounds on scaling dimensions and OPE coefficients for several low-lying, unprotected operators as a function of the central charge. We interpret our bounds in the context of N=4{\mathcal N}=4 super Yang-Mills (SYM) theories, formulating a series of conjectures regarding the embedding of the conformal manifold --- parametrized by the complexified gauge coupling --- into the space of scaling dimensions and OPE coefficients. Our conjectures assign a distinguished role to points on the conformal manifold that are self-dual under a subgroup of the S-duality group. This paper contains a more detailed exposition of a number of results previously reported in arXiv:1304.1803 in addition to new results.

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@article{arxiv.1612.02363,
  title  = {More ${\mathcal N}=4$ superconformal bootstrap},
  author = {Christopher Beem and Leonardo Rastelli and Balt C. van Rees},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.02363},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

41 pages, 13 figures. v3: typos fixed in equations (2.32) and (2.34)

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