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In a recent paper, we proposed closed-form expressions for the superconformal indices of the (A_1, A_{2n-3}) and (A_1, D_{2n}) Argyres-Douglas (AD) superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in the Schur limit. Following up on our results, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-06 Matthew Buican , Takahiro Nishinaka

We derive a bound on the conformal dimensions of the lightest few states in general unitary 2d conformal field theories with discrete spectra using modular invariance, including CFTs with chiral currents. We derive a bound on the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-04 Joshua D. Qualls

Motivated by the representation of the super Virasoro constraints as generalized Dirac-K{\"a}hler constraints $(d \pm d^\dagger)|\psi> = 0$ on loop space, examples of the most general continuous deformations $d \to e^{-W} d e^W$ are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Urs Schreiber

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

We consider line defects in d-dimensional Conformal Field Theories (CFTs). The ambient CFT places nontrivial constraints on Renormalization Group (RG) flows on such line defects. We show that the flow on line defects is consequently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-12 Gabriel Cuomo , Zohar Komargodski , Avia Raviv-Moshe

Defects in conformal field theories are interesting objects to study from both formal and applied points of view. In this paper, we construct conformal defects in free scalar field CFTs in diverse dimensions. After discussing the possible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-15 Vladimir Bashmakov , Jacopo Sisti

In this work we study particular TQFTs in three dimensions, known as Symmetry Topological Field Theories (or SymTFTs), to identify line defects of two-dimensional CFTs arising from the compactification of 6d $(2,0)$ SCFTs on 4-manifolds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-26 Jin Chen , Wei Cui , Babak Haghighat , Yi-Nan Wang

The modern approach to $m$-form global symmetries in a $d$-dimensional quantum field theory (QFT) entails specifying dimension $d-m-1$ topological generalized symmetry operators which non-trivially link with $m$-dimensional defect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hübner , Ethan Torres , Hao Y. Zhang

We follow to Witten proposal in the calculation of conformal anomaly from d+1-dimensional higher derivative gravity via AdS/CFT correspondence. It is assumed that some d-dimensional conformal field theories have a description in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

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

We holographically study supersymmetric deformations of $N=3$ and $N=1$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in three dimensions using four-dimensional $N=4$ gauged supergravity coupled to three-vector multiplets with non-semisimple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-03 Parinya Karndumri

We study operators with large internal charge in boundary conformal field theories (BCFTs) with internal symmetries. Using the state-operator correspondence and the existence of a macroscopic limit, we find a non-trivial relation between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Gabriel Cuomo , Márk Mezei , Avia Raviv-Moshe

In this paper the notion of a superconformal structure on a supermanifold is introduced in an effort to study the superparticle sigma-model. There are, in particular, two main aspects of the sigma-model which are investigated. The first is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Kowshik Bettadapura

We study various aspects of half-BPS surface defect operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. For defects on generic points on the moduli space we use superconformal symmetry to fix the form of one-point and two-point functions of half-BPS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-20 Adolfo Holguin , Hiroki Kawai

We take first steps toward a theory of ``conformal twists'' for superconformal field theories in dimension 3 to 6, extending the well-known analysis of twists for supersymmetric theories. A conformal twist is a square-zero odd element in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Chris Elliott , Owen Gwilliam , Matteo Lotito

We extend the superembedding formalism for 4D N=1 superconformal field theory (SCFT) to the case of fields in arbitrary representations of the superconformal group SU(2,2|1). As applications we obtain manifestly superconformally covariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-16 Walter D. Goldberger , Zuhair U. Khandker , Daliang Li , Witold Skiba

By conformally coupling vector and hyper multiplets in Minkowski space, we obtain a class of field theories with extended rigid conformal supersymmetry on any Lorentzian four-manifold admitting twistor spinors. We construct the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Paul de Medeiros , Stefan Hollands

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

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

We search for new defect universality classes by considering localised interactions placed on an RG interface separating two interacting multiscalar CFTs in $4-\varepsilon$ dimensions. Studying interactions spread throughout the entire…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-03 Samuel Bartlett-Tisdall , Sabine Harribey , William Pannell