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We study spin-2 fluctuations around an infinite family of warped backgrounds of the form $\text{AdS}_2 \times \text{S}^2 \times \text{T}^4 \times \text{S}^1 \times \mathcal{I}_{\rho}$ in the type IIB theory, which possesses $\mathcal{N}=4$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-09 Konstantinos C. Rigatos

We prove using invariance under the modular $S$- and $ST$-transformations that every unitary two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) of only even-spin operators (with no extended chiral algebra and with central charges $c,\tilde{c}>1$)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-28 Joshua D. Qualls

The multiplets that occur in four dimensional rigidly supersymmetric theories can be described either by chiral superfields in Minkowski superspace or analytic superfields in harmonic superspace. The superconformal Ward identities for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Paul Howe , P. West

The three dimensional N=2 supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory coupled to matter fields, possibly deformed by a superpotential, give rise to a large class of exactly conformal theories with Lagrangian descriptions. These theories can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 Davide Gaiotto , Xi Yin

We present a calculation of three point functions for a class of chiral operators, including the primary ones, in d = 3, N = 8; d = 6, N = (2,0) and d = 4, N = 4 superconformal field theories at large N. These theories are related to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Roberto Zucchini

We propose two novel methods for computing the superconformal index of 5d superconformal field theories that cannot be described by conventional Lagrangian descriptions under mass deformations. The first approach involves the use of Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-10 Hee-Cheol Kim , Minsung Kim , Sung-Soo Kim , Gabi Zafrir

We present explicit formulas for the spectra of higher spin operators on the subbundle of the bundle of spinor-valued trace free symmetric tensors that are annihilated by the Clifford multiplication over the standard sphere in odd…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Doojin Hong

We consider the operator spectrum of a three-dimensional ${\cal N} = 2$ superconformal field theory with moduli spaces of one complex dimension, such as the fixed point theory with three chiral superfields $X,Y,Z$ and a superpotential $W =…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-17 Simeon Hellerman , Shunsuke Maeda , Masataka Watanabe

This paper presents a formula for the Hilbert series that counts gauge invariant chiral operators in 3d N=2 Yang-Mills theories with vectorlike matter and no Chern-Simons interactions. The formula counts 't Hooft monopole operators dressed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-12 Stefano Cremonesi

As in two and four dimensions, supersymmetric conformal field theories in three dimensions can have exactly marginal operators. These are illustrated in a number of examples with N=4 and N=2 supersymmetry. The N=2 theory of three chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew J. Strassler

We study the conformal properties of pseudo-scalar (parity-odd) operators in four-dimensional field theory. Such operators include the topological term in a gauge theory and the Yukawa coupling. We show that a single operator of this type…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-26 Dmitry Chicherin , Emery Sokatchev

For a given conformal field theory (CFT), one can deform it via the addition of a marginal operator to the spectrum. In two dimensions, when the added operator has conformal weights $h=\bar{h}=1$, conformal symmetry is not broken and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-27 Michael Imseis , Sruthi A. Narayanan , A. W. Peet

The algebraic structures related with integrable structure of superconformal field theory (SCFT) are introduced. The SCFT counterparts of Baxter's Q-operator are constructed. The fusion-like relations for the transfer-matrices in different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Petr P. Kulish , Anton M. Zeitlin

Using superspace unitary operator formalism, we derive various (anti-)BRST symmetry transformations explicitly for the non-Abelian 2-form gauge theories. We introduce a new Lagrangian with a coupling of matter fields not only with 1-from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Dheeraj Shukla , Kuldeep Kumar

Rarita-Schwinger fields are solutions to the relativistic field equation of spin-$3/2$ fermions in four dimensional flat spacetime, which are important in supergravity and superstring theories. Bure\v s et al. generalized it to arbitrary…

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It has recently been argued by Alday et al that the inclusion of surface operators in 4d N=2 SU(2) quiver gauge theories should correspond to insertions of certain degenerate operators in the dual Liouville theory. So far only the insertion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Can Kozcaz , Sara Pasquetti , Niclas Wyllard

Global conformal invariance determines the form of two and three-point functions of quasi-primary operators in a conformal field theory, and generates nontrivial relations between terms in the operator product expansion. These ideas are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-04 Atreya Chatterjee , David A. Lowe

Using the off-shell formulation for ${\cal N}=2$ conformal supergravity in four dimensions, we describe superconformal higher-spin multiplets of conserved currents in a curved background and present their associated unconstrained gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Emmanouil S. N. Raptakis

We show that exactly marginal operators of Supersymmetric Conformal Field Theories (SCFTs) with four supercharges cannot obtain a vacuum expectation value at a generic point on the conformal manifold. Exactly marginal operators are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-29 Zohar Komargodski , Shlomo S. Razamat , Orr Sela , Adar Sharon

We use holography to compute the large-$N$ effective field theory along the moduli space of vacua of an infinite class of three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs admitting a dual M-theory description. We focus in particular on toric models…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-09 Stefano Cremonesi , Stefano Lanza , Luca Martucci