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We make an ansatz for the Mellin representation of the four-point amplitude of half-BPS operators of arbitrary charges at order $\lambda^{-\frac{5}{2}}$ in an expansion around the supergravity limit. Crossing symmetry and a set of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-14 J. M. Drummond , H. Paul , M. Santagata

We find a simple relation between two-dimensional BPS N=2 superconformal blocks and bosonic Virasoro conformal blocks, which allows us to analyze the crossing equations for BPS 4-point functions in unitary (2,2) superconformal theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao , Yifan Wang , Xi Yin

We present the basic $\mathcal{N} =1$ superconformal field theories in four-dimensional de Sitter space-time, namely the non-abelian super Yang-Mills theory and the chiral multiplet theory with gauge interactions or cubic superpotential.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Tarek Anous , Daniel Z. Freedman , Alexander Maloney

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

We construct a four supercharges Liouville superconformal field theory in four dimensions. The Liouville superfield is chiral and its lowest component is a log-correlated complex scalar whose real part carries a background charge. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-01 Tom Levy , Yaron Oz , Avia Raviv-Moshe

We study the conditions under which 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) have multiplets housing operators that are chiral with respect to an $\mathcal{N}=1$ subalgebra. Our main focus is on the set of often-ignored and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-20 Anindya Banerjee , Matthew Buican

We study N=1 superconformal theories in four dimensions obtained wrapping M5 branes on a Riemann surface. We propose a method to determine from the spectral curve the scaling dimension of chiral operators in the SCFT. Whenever the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Simone Giacomelli

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

In the context of boundary conformal field theory, we investigate whether the boundary trace anomaly can depend on marginal directions in the presence of supersymmetry. Recently, it was found that a graphene-like non-supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Christopher P. Herzog , Kuo-Wei Huang , Itamar Shamir , Julio Virrueta

We consider mixed four-point correlators of 1/2-BPS operators $\phi_{k}$ in SCFTs with eight real Poincar\'e supercharges, namely the 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$, 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$, 5d $\mathcal{N}=1$, and 6d $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ theories. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-13 Mitchell Woolley

We introduce the analytic superspace formalism for six-dimensional $(N,0)$ superconformal field theories. Concentrating on the $(2,0)$ theory we write down the Ward identities for correlation functions in the theory and show how to solve…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 P. J. Heslop

In this paper, we use crossing symmetry and unitarity constraints to put a lower bound on the central charge of conformal field theories in large space-time dimensions $D$. Specifically, we work with the four-point function of identical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Abhijit Gadde , Mrunmay Jagadale , Shraiyance Jain , Trakshu Sharma

We analyze the relation between the large N limit of 6 dimensional superconformal field theories with eight supercharges and M theory on orbifolds of AdS_7xS^4. We use the known spectrum of Kaluza-Klein harmonics of supergravity on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Changhyun Ahn , Kyungho Oh , Radu Tatar

We use the numerical conformal bootstrap to study boundary quantum electrodynamics, the theory of a four dimensional photon in a half space coupled to charged conformal matter on the boundary. This system is believed to be a boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 Samuel Bartlett-Tisdall , Christopher P. Herzog , Vladimir Schaub

We set up the bootstrap procedure for supersymmetric Galilean Conformal (SGC) field theories in two dimensions by constructing the SGC blocks in the $\mathcal{N}=1$ and two possible $\mathcal{N} =2$ extensions of the Galilean conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-25 Ivano Lodato , Wout Merbis , Zodinmawia

We show that four-dimensional superconformal algebras admit an infinite-dimensional derived enhancement after performing a holomorphic twist. The type of higher symmetry algebras we find are closely related to algebras studied by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-11-05 Ingmar Saberi , Brian R. Williams

We construct and study several examples of continuous families of AdS$_4$ $\mathcal N = 1$ solutions of four-dimensional maximal gauged supergravity. These backgrounds provide the holographic descriptions of conformal manifolds of the dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-16 Nikolay Bobev , Fridrik Freyr Gautason , Jesse van Muiden

We study multiscalar theories with $\text{O}(N) \times \text{O}(2)$ symmetry. These models have a stable fixed point in $d$ dimensions if $N$ is greater than some critical value $N_c(d)$. Previous estimates of this critical value from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-19 Marten Reehorst , Slava Rychkov , Benoit Sirois , Balt C. van Rees

We consider a class of Poincar\'e superalgebras for which the nested bracket of three supercharges is necessarily zero only in dimensions greater than three. In lower dimensions, we give a precise characterisation of the data which encodes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-11 Paul de Medeiros

Motivated by Ooguri and Vafa, we study superstrings in flat R^4 in a constant self-dual graviphoton background. The supergravity equations of motion are satisfied in this background which deforms the N=2 d=4 flat space super-Poincare…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Nathan Berkovits , Nathan Seiberg