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We study the free energy of four-dimensional CFTs on deformed spheres. For generic nonsupersymmetric CFTs only the coefficient of the logarithmic divergence in the free energy is physical, which is an extremum for the round sphere. We then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-10 Joseph A. Minahan , Usman Naseer , Charles Thull

We study two-point correlation functions of chiral/anti-chiral operators in SU(N) $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories with massless hyper-multiplets in a representation $\mathcal{R}$ associated with a non-vanishing $\beta$-function. Using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-04 M. Billo , L. Griguolo , A. Lerda , A. Testa

We study correlation functions in the one-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric SYK model. The leading order 4-point correlation functions are computed by summing over ladder diagrams expanded in a suitable basis of conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Cheng Peng , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

Superconformal field theories (SCFT) are known to possess solvable yet nontrivial sectors in their full operator algebras. Two prime examples are the chiral algebra sector on a two dimensional plane in four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-24 Mykola Dedushenko , Yifan Wang

Correlation functions of CFT operators with infinite scaling dimension are rich, multifaceted objects that describe physics ranging across classical holography, black hole dynamics, and flat-space scattering amplitudes. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-01 David Poland , Gordon Rogelberg

We study 5d $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric field theories on closed five-manifolds $\mathcal{M}_5$ which are principal circle bundles over simply-connected K\"ahler four-manifolds, $\mathcal{M}_4$, equipped with the Donaldson-Witten twist.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-01 Cyril Closset , Horia Magureanu

We consider conformal perturbation theory for $n$-point functions on the sphere in general 2D CFTs to first order in coupling constant. We regulate perturbation integrals using canonical hard disk excisions of size $\epsilon$ around the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-22 Benjamin A. Burrington , Ida G. Zadeh

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

Quasi-primary correlators in two-dimensional conformal field theories deformed simultaneously by $T\bar T$ and root-$T\bar T$ are studied. A path-integral formulation motivated by the geometric realization of the combined deformation is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-17 Bo-Rui Li , Song He , Yu-Xiao Liu

We consider the N=4 SU(N) Super Yang Mills theory on the Coulomb branch with gauge symmetry broken to S(U(N_1) x U(N_2)). By integrating the W particles, the effective action near the IR SU(N_i) conformal fixed points is seen to be a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Miguel S. Costa

We study solutions of type IIB supergravity which are SL(2,R) x SU(2) x U(1)^2 invariant deformations of AdS_3 x S^3 x K3 and take the form of products of self-dual spacelike warped AdS_3 and a deformed three-sphere. One of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Sheer El-Showk , Monica Guica

In this note we consider Coulomb-branch chiral primary correlation functions in ${\cal N} = 2$ superconformal QCD with gauge group $SU(2)$, in the limit of large R-charge ${\cal J} = 2n$ for the chiral primary operators $[{\cal O}(x)]^ n$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-23 Simeon Hellerman

We study the conformal bootstrap constraints for 4D $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal field theories containing a chiral operator $\phi$ and the chiral ring relation $\phi^2=0$. Hints for a minimal interacting SCFT in this class have appeared…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-01 David Poland , Andreas Stergiou

It is shown explicitly that the correlation functions of Conformal Field Theories (CFT) with the logarithmic operators are invariant under the differential realization of Borel subalgebra of $\W_\infty$-algebra. This algebra is constructed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Shafiekhani , M. R. Rahimi Tabar

We consider two-point correlators in SU(N) gauge theories on R4 with N=2 supersymmetry and Nf massless hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation. Using localization on S4, we compute the leading perturbative corrections to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 M. Billo , F. Fucito , A. Lerda , J. F. Morales , Ya. S. Stanev , Congkao Wen

We compute the fundamental correlation functions in two-dimensional rational conformal field theory, from which all other correlators can be obtained by sewing: the correlators of three bulk fields on the sphere, one bulk and one boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Jürgen Fuchs , Ingo Runkel , Christoph Schweigert

We study chiral deformations of ${\cal N}=2$ and ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric gauge theories obtained by turning on $\tau_J \,{\rm tr} \, \Phi^J$ interactions with $\Phi$ the ${\cal N}=2$ superfield. Using localization, we compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 F. Fucito , J. F. Morales , R. Poghossian

We show that supersymmetry can be used to compute the BCFT one-point function coefficients for chiral primary operators, in 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs with $\frac{1}{2}$-BPS boundary conditions. The main ingredient is the hemisphere partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-26 Davide Bason , Lorenzo Di Pietro , Roberto Valandro , Jesse van Muiden

We perform a systematic study of integrated four-point functions of half-BPS operators in four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory with gauge group $SU(N)$. These observables, defined by a certain spacetime integral of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-15 Hynek Paul , Eric Perlmutter , Himanshu Raj

Using supersymmetric localization, we study the sector of chiral primary operators $({\rm Tr} \, \phi^2 )^n$ with large $R$-charge $4n$ in $\mathcal{N}=2$ four-dimensional superconformal theories in the weak coupling regime $g\rightarrow…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Antoine Bourget , Diego Rodriguez-Gomez , Jorge G. Russo