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We consider correlation functions in symmetric product ($S_N$) orbifold CFTs at large $N$ with arbitrary seed CFT, expanding on our earlier work arXiv:2211.04633 . Using covering space techniques, we calculate descent relations using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Benjamin A. Burrington , A. W. Peet

In this paper we set out to further explore the connection between isolated N=2 SCFT's in four dimensions and N=1 SCFT's in five dimensions. Using 5-brane webs we are able to provide IR Lagrangian descriptions in terms of 5d gauge theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Oren Bergman , Gabi Zafrir

In this letter we study how the exact non-perturbative integrability methods in 4D N=4 Super-Yang-Mills can work efficiently together with the numerical conformal bootstrap techniques to go beyond the spectral observables and access…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Andrea Cavaglià , Nikolay Gromov , Julius Julius , Michelangelo Preti

We propose a prescription for describing correlation functions in higher-dimensional defect conformal field theories (DCFTs) by those in ancillary conformal field theories (CFTs) without defects, which is a vast generalization of the image…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-09 Tatsuma Nishioka , Yoshitaka Okuyama , Soichiro Shimamori

The local supertwistor formalism, which involves a superconformal connection acting on the bundle of such objects over superspace, is used to investigate superconformal geometry in six dimensions. The geometry corresponding to (1, 0) and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 P. S. Howe , U. Lindström

We find an infinite family of $4D$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ interacting superconformal field theories which enter the description of the strong-coupling limit of $SU(2N+1)$ gauge theories with hypermultiplets in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-30 Oscar Chacaltana , Jacques Distler , Anderson Trimm

In this paper, we explore supersymmetric and 2d analogs of the SYK model. We begin by working out a basis of (super)conformal eigenfunctions appropriate for expanding a four-point function. We use this to clarify some details of the 1d…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 Jeff Murugan , Douglas Stanford , Edward Witten

Considered is the formulation for the superstring action in 6 and 10 dimensions involving supertwistor variables that appropriately generalize 4-dimensional Ferber supertwistors. Equations of motion and kappa-symmetry transformations in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 D. V. Uvarov

Six-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs) have an atomic classification in terms of elementary building blocks, conformal systems that generalize matter and can be fused together to form all known 6d SCFTs in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-10 Mario De Marco , Michele Del Zotto , Michele Graffeo , Andrea Sangiovanni

We consider correlation functions in symmetric product ($S_N$) orbifold CFTs at large $N$ with arbitrary seed CFT. Specifically, we consider correlators of descendant operators constructed using both the full Virasoro generators $L_{m}$ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Benjamin A. Burrington , A. W. Peet

We show how three-dimensional superconformal theories for any number N <= 8 of supersymmetries can be obtained by taking a conformal limit of the corresponding three-dimensional gauged supergravity models. The superconformal theories are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Eric A. Bergshoeff , Olaf Hohm , Diederik Roest , Henning Samtleben , Ergin Sezgin

We derive explicit formulae to compute the $a$ and $c$ central charges of four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) directly from Coulomb branch related quantities. The formulae apply at arbitrary rank. We also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Mario Martone

Four-dimensional N-extended superconformal symmetry and correlation functions of quasi-primary superfields are studied within the superspace formalism. A superconformal Killing equation is derived and its solutions are classified in terms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Jeong-Hyuck Park

The N = 2, 4 superconformal symmetry constraints in d = 4 for four point functions of chiral primary 1/2-BPS operators are derived. The operators are described by symmetric traceless tensors of the internal R-symmetry group. A substantial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-06 Michael Nirschl

The correlators of free four dimensional conformal field theories (CFT4) have been shown to be given by amplitudes in two-dimensional $so(4,2)$ equivariant topological field theories (TFT2), by using a vertex operator formalism for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-13 Robert de Mello Koch , Sanjaye Ramgoolam

Detailed studies of four dimensional N=2 superconformal field theories (SCFT) defined by isolated complete intersection singularities are performed: we compute the Coulomb branch spectrum, Seiberg-Witten solutions and central charges. Most…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-22 Yifan Wang , Dan Xie , Stephen S. -T. Yau , Shing-Tung Yau

We consider the supermultiplet of linearized beta-deformation of $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills(SYM). It was previously studied on the gravitational side. We study the supermultiplet of beta-deformations on the field theory side and we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-04 Segundo P. Milián

Building on recent progress in the study of compactifications of $6d$ $(1,0)$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) on Riemann surfaces to $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=1$ theories, we initiate a systematic study of compactifications of $5d$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-11 Matteo Sacchi , Orr Sela , Gabi Zafrir

We analyze four-dimensional (4d) $N=1$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) obtained as deformations of 4d $N=2$ SCFTs on S-folds by tilting 7-branes. Geometric compatibility with the structures of S-folds constrains the forms of T-branes.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-06 Yusuke Kimura

We examine the AdS/CFT correspondence through a manifestly 5D supersymmetric formalism, corresponding to a 4D N=1 supersymmetric CFT. We find that the dimensions of scalar and fermionic component operators are simply related, and that there…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-25 G. Cacciapaglia , G. Marandella , J. Terning