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We construct a large new family of four-dimensional N=1 superconformal field theories by coupling Gaiotto's T_N theories to N=1 vector multiplets. In particular, we consider theories in which various T_N blocks are linked together via…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-16 Ibrahima Bah , Brian Wecht

We investigate the concept of superconformal symmetry in six dimensions, applied to the interacting theory of (2,0) tensor multiplets and self-dual strings. The action of a superconformal transformation on the superspace coordinates is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Par Arvidsson

The implications of restricted conformal invariance under conformal transformations preserving a plane boundary are discussed for general dimensions $d$. Calculations of the universal function of a conformal invariant $\xi$ which appears in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. M. McAvity , H. Osborn

Anti-de Sitter supergravity models are considered in three dimensions. Precise asymptotic conditions involving a chiral projection are given on the Rarita-Schwinger fields. Together with the known boundary conditions on the bosonic fields,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Maximo Banados , Karin Bautier , Olivier Coussaert , Marc Henneaux , Miguel Ortiz

We construct a Super-Grassmannian integral representation for $n-$point functions in $\mathcal{N}=1$ SCFT$_3$. In this formalism, conformal invariance, supersymmetry, and special superconformal invariance are implemented manifestly through…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Aswini Bala , Sachin Jain , Dhruva K. S. , Adithya A Rao

Critical systems are described by conformal field theories, whose dynamics can be exactly solved in two dimensions. In the presence of a boundary, with the so-called method of images it is possible to study the surface critical behaviour of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Valentina Riva

We develop superspace techniques to construct general off-shell N=1,2,3,4 superconformal sigma-models in three space-time dimensions. The most general N=3 and N=4 superconformal sigma-models are constructed in terms of N=2 chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-01 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Jeong-Hyuck Park , Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli , Rikard von Unge

We propose a general way to complete supersymmetric theories with operators below the unitarity bound, adding gauge-singlet fields which enforce the decoupling of such operators. This makes it possible to perform all usual computations, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-27 Sergio Benvenuti , Simone Giacomelli

We construct quantized free superfields and represent them as operator-valued distributions in Fock space starting with Majorana fields. The perturbative construction of the S-matrix for interacting theories is carried through by extending…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Florin Constantinescu , Gunter Scharf

We study the correspondence between the large $N$ limit of ${\cal N} = 2$ three dimensional superconformal field theories and M theory on orbifolds of $AdS_4 \times {\bf S^7}$. We identify the brane configuration which gives $C^3/Z_3$ as a…

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

Conformal field theories have been long known to describe the fascinating universal physics of scale invariant critical points. They describe continuous phase transitions in fluids, magnets, and numerous other materials, while at the same…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-18 David Poland , Slava Rychkov , Alessandro Vichi

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 use analytical bootstrap techniques to study supersymmetric monodromy defects in the critical Wess-Zumino model. In preparation for this result we first study two related systems which are interesting on their own: general monodromy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-15 Aleix Gimenez-Grau , Pedro Liendo

The purpose of this work is to present some basic concepts about the non-linear sigma model in a simple and direct way. We start with showing the bosonic model and the Wess-Zumino-Witten term, making some comments about its topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Breno C. O. Imbiriba

We initiate the study of a three dimensional disordered supersymmetric field theory. Specifically, we consider a $\mathcal{N}=2$ large $N$ Wess-Zumino like model with cubic superpotential involving couplings drawn from a Gaussian random…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-22 Chi-Ming Chang , Sean Colin-Ellerin , Cheng Peng , Mukund Rangamani

The symmetry algebra of $N=1$ Super-Liouville field theory in two dimensions is the infinite dimensional $N=1$ superconformal algebra, which allows one to prove, that correlation functions, containing degenerated fields obey some partial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Poghossian

We show that the superconformal symmetries of the (1,1) sigma model decompose into a set of more refined symmetries when the target space admits projectors $P_{\pm}$, and the orthogonal complements $Q_{\pm}$, covariantly constant with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Vid Stojevic

We propose a new approach to solve conformal field theories and apply it to Chern-Simons Matter theories and three-dimensional bosonization duality. All three-point correlation functions of single-trace operators are obtained in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-14 Evgeny D. Skvortsov

Using a superspace representation of the N=3 Neveau-Schwarz super Virasoro algebra, we find solutions of N=3 super Ward identities. Global transformations generated by the non-abelian supercurrent require not only superfields, but also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-01 Dmitriy Drichel , Michael Flohr

Boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) is the study of conformal field theory (CFT) in semi-infinite space-time. In non-relativistic limit ($x\rightarrow\epsilon x, t\rightarrow t, \epsilon\rightarrow 0$), boundary conformal algebra changes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 M. R. Setare , V. Kamali