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OPE Selection Rules for Schur Multiplets in 4D $\mathcal{N}=2$ Superconformal Field Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-05-01 v2

Abstract

We compute general expressions for two types of three-point functions of (semi-)short multiplets in four-dimensional N=2\mathcal{N}=2 superconformal field theories. These (semi-)short multiplets are called "Schur multiplets" and play an important role in the study of associated chiral algebras. The first type of the three-point functions we compute involves two half-BPS Schur multiplets and an arbitrary Schur multiplet, while the second type involves one stress tensor multiplet and two arbitrary Schur multiplets. From these three-point functions, we read off the corresponding OPE selection rules for the Schur multiplets. Our results particularly imply that there are non-trivial selection rules on the quantum numbers of Schur operators in these multiplets. We also give a conjecture on the selection rules for general Schur multiplets.

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@article{arxiv.1812.06394,
  title  = {OPE Selection Rules for Schur Multiplets in 4D $\mathcal{N}=2$ Superconformal Field Theories},
  author = {Kazuki Kiyoshige and Takahiro Nishinaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.06394},
  year   = {2019}
}

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