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Superconformal invariants and spinning correlators in 3d $\cal{N}=2$ SCFTs

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-12-22 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We construct superconformal invariants in superspace which are used to build 3-point correlators of spinning operators in general N=2\cal{N}=2 superconformal field theories in three dimensions. Our systematic analysis includes various relations between these invariants and provides a minimal set of parity-even and parity-odd invariants which is further used to construct general 3-point functions in any 3d N=2\cal{N}=2 SCFT. For conserved (super)currents, we explicitly compute various 3-point functions using Wick contractions in the free field case, and express them in terms of the constructed parity-even invariants. We give evidence through examples for the claim that the 3-point function of conserved currents generally comprises of two parts - a parity-even piece coming from the free theory, and a parity-odd piece.

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@article{arxiv.2205.11157,
  title  = {Superconformal invariants and spinning correlators in 3d $\cal{N}=2$ SCFTs},
  author = {Aditya Jain and Amin A. Nizami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.11157},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

v3, 27 pages; a few typos corrected and a footnote added; final version published in EPJC (Particles and Fields)