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Probing N=2 superconformal field theories with localization

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-03-23 v1

Abstract

We use supersymmetric localization to study probes of four dimensional Lagrangian N=2 superconformal field theories. We first derive a unique equation for the eigenvalue density of these theories. We observe that these theories have a Wigner eigenvalue density precisely when they satisfy a necessary condition for having a holographic dual with a sensible higher-derivative expansion. We then compute in the saddle-point approximation the vacuum expectation value of 1/2-BPS circular Wilson loops, and the two-point functions of these Wilson loops with the Lagrangian density and with the stress-energy tensor. This last computation also provides the corresponding Bremsstrahlung functions and entanglement entropies. As expected, whenever a finite fraction of the matter is in the fundamental representation, the results are drastically different from those of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory.

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@article{arxiv.1511.00616,
  title  = {Probing N=2 superconformal field theories with localization},
  author = {Bartomeu Fiol and Blai Garolera and Genis Torrents},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.00616},
  year   = {2016}
}

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20 pages

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