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We study the chiral higher-spin symmetry algebras $\mathfrak{ca}$ of various twistorial higher-spin theories. These symmetries play the roles of asymptotic symmetries on the celestial twistor sphere, which constrain the observables of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-30 Tung Tran

We introduce the concept of chiral geometric operators and use Gilkey's invariance theory to prove the local index theorem for these operators. In other words, we demonstrate that the supertrace of the heat kernel of a given geometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Alberto Richtsfeld

We use supershadow methods to derive new expressions for superconformal blocks in 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal field theories. We analyze the four-point function $\langle\mathcal{A}_1 \mathcal{A}_2^\dagger \mathcal{B}_1…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-05 Zuhair U. Khandker , Daliang Li , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin

Using conformal field theory (CFT) arguments we derive an infinite number of constraints on the large spin expansion of the anomalous dimensions and structure constants of higher spin operators. These arguments rely only on analiticity,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Luis F. Alday , Agnese Bissi , Tomasz Lukowski

One of the predictions of the AdS/CFT correspondence is the matching of protected operators between a superconformal field theory and its holographic dual. We review the spectrum of protected operators in quiver gauge theories that flow to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-15 Richard Eager

Monopole operators play a central role in 3 dimensional supersymmetric dualities: a careful understanding of their spectrum is necessary to match chiral operators on either sides of a conjectured duality. In Chern-Simons theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Antonio Amariti , Csaba Csáki , Mario Martone , Nicolas Rey-Le Lorier

We consider a class of N=2 conformal SU(N) SYM theories in four dimensions with matter in the fundamental, two-index symmetric and anti-symmetric representations, and study the corresponding matrix model provided by localization on a sphere…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 M. Beccaria , M. Billo , F. Galvagno , A. Hasan , A. Lerda

We consider the exact coupling constant dependence of extremal correlation functions of ${\cal N} = 2$ chiral primary operators in 4d ${\cal N} = 2$ superconformal gauge theories with gauge group SU(N) and N_f=2N massless fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Marco Baggio , Vasilis Niarchos , Kyriakos Papadodimas

We study the moduli dependence of the chiral ring in N = (4,4) superconformal field theories, with special emphasis on those CFTs that are dual to type IIB string theory on AdS3xS3xX4. The chiral primary operators are sections of vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-27 Jan de Boer , Jan Manschot , Kyriakos Papadodimas , Erik Verlinde

In earlier works, it was seen that a ${\mathbb Z}/2$ orbifold of the theory of 24 free two-dimensional chiral fermions admits various sporadic finite simple groups as global symmetry groups when viewed as an ${\cal N}=1$, ${\cal N}=2$, or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-26 Miranda C. N. Cheng , Sarah M. Harrison , Shamit Kachru , Daniel Whalen

Bounds on anomalous dimensions of scalar operators in 4d superconformal field theory are explored through perturbative viewpoint. Following the recent work of Green and Shih, in which a conjecture involved this issue is verified at the NLO,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-13 Sibo Zheng

This paper addresses a long standing problem - to identify the chiral ring and moduli space (i.e. as an algebraic variety) on the Coulomb branch of an N = 4 superconformal field theory in 2+1 dimensions. Previous techniques involved a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-14 Stefano Cremonesi , Amihay Hanany , Alberto Zaffaroni

N=(2,2) theories in 1+1D exhibit a direct correspondence between the R-charges of chiral operators at a conformal point and the multiplicities of BPS kinks in a massive deformation, as shown by Cecotti and Vafa. We obtain an analogous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Adam Ritz

In this note we study spin chain operators in the N=6 Chern-Simons-matter theory recently proposed by Aharony, Bergman, Jafferis and Maldacena to be dual to type IIA string theory in AdS4xCP3. We study the two-loop dilatation operator in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-04 Davide Gaiotto , Simone Giombi , Xi Yin

In this paper we use Riesz spectral Theory and Gershgorin Theory to obtain explicit information concerning the spectrum of pseudo-differential operators defined on the unit circle $\mathbb{T} := \mathbb{R}/ 2 \pi \mathbb{ Z}$. For symbols…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Juan Pablo Velasquez-Rodriguez

We present the analysis of all possible shortenings which occur for composite gauge invariant conformal primary superfields in SU(2,2/N) invariant gauge theories. These primaries have top-spin range N/2 \leq J_{max} < N with J_{max} = J_1 +…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Andrianopoli , S. Ferrara , E. Sokatchev , B. Zupnik

In the first part of this paper we investigate the operator aspect of higher-rank supersymmetric model which is introduced as a Lie theoretic extension of the $N=2$ minimal model with the simplest case $su(2)$ corresponding to the $N=2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Toshiya Kawai , Taku Uchino , Sung-Kil Yang

We provide a new construction of superfield collinear twist-$2$ operators as infinite-dimensional, irreducible representations of the collinear superconformal algebra in $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal field theories. As an application, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-06 Giacomo Santoni , Francesco Scardino

In d=2+1 dimensions, there exist field theories which are non-relativistic and superconformal. These theories describe two species of anyons, whose spins differ by 1/2, interacting in a harmonic trap. We compute the dimensions of chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Nima Doroud , David Tong , Carl Turner

The Bagger--Lambert construction of N = 8 superconformal field theories (SCFT) in three dimensions is based on 3-algebras. Three groups of researchers recently realized that an arbitrary semisimple Lie algebra can be incorporated by using a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-10 Miguel A. Bandres , Arthur E. Lipstein , John H. Schwarz