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We studied the quantum dynamics of six dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(2, 0)$ superconformal field theory (the QNG theory). We developed the spinor technique for six-dimensional quantum field theories. By combining this technique with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-25 Tong Chern

We extend the method for constructing symmetry operators of higher order for two-dimensional quantum Hamiltonians by Kalnins, Kress and Miller (2010). This expansion method expresses the integral in a finite power series in terms of lower…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Ian Marquette , Anthony Parr

We consider $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal quiver gauge theories in four dimensions and evaluate the chiral/anti-chiral correlators of single-trace operators. We show that it is convenient to form particular twisted and untwisted…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 M. Billo , M. Frau , F. Galvagno , A. Lerda , A. Pini

All the supersymmetric configurations of pure, ungauged, N=4,d=4 supergravity are classified in a formalism that keeps manifest the S and T dualities of the theory. We also find simple equations that need to be satisfied by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Jorge Bellorin , Tomas Ortin

We analyse the 3-point CFT correlators involving non-conserved spinning operators in momentum space. We derive a general expression for the conformal Ward identities defining the 3-point functions involving two generic spin $s$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 Raffaele Marotta , Kostas Skenderis , Mritunjay Verma

We propose a new off-shell formulation for N-extended conformal supergravity in three spacetime dimensions. Our construction is based on the gauging of the N-extended superconformal algebra in superspace. Covariant constraints are imposed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-18 Daniel Butter , Sergei M. Kuzenko , Joseph Novak , Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

We display the construction of a twisted superalgebra for the N=1 Euclidian supergravity on 4-manifolds with an almost complex structure. It acts on a representation of twisted supersymmetry made of forms with odd and even statistics and it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-22 Laurent Baulieu , Marc Bellon , Valentin Reys

By generalizing and extending some of the earlier results derived by Manin and Merkulov, a twistor description is given of four-dimensional N-extended (gauged) self-dual supergravity with and without cosmological constant. Starting from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Wolf

In this paper, we analyze the constraints imposed by unitarity and crossing symmetry on conformal theories in large dimensions. In particular, we show that in a unitary conformal theory in large dimension $D$, the four-point function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-25 Abhijit Gadde , Trakshu Sharma

We use supersymmetric localization to calculate correlation functions of half-BPS local operators in 3d ${\cal N} = 4$ superconformal field theories whose Lagrangian descriptions consist of vectormultiplets coupled to hypermultiplets. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-13 Mykola Dedushenko , Silviu S. Pufu , Ran Yacoby

We develop a superspace formulation for ${\cal N}=3$ conformal supergravity in four spacetime dimensions as a gauge theory of the superconformal group $\mathsf{SU}(2,2|3)$. Upon imposing certain covariant constraints, the algebra of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-22 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Emmanouil S. N. Raptakis

Higher derivative couplings of hypermultiplets to $6D, N=(1,0)$ supergravity are obtained from dimensional reduction of 10D heterotic supergravity that includes order $\alpha'$ higher derivative corrections. Reduction on $T^4$ is followed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-30 Hao-Yuan Chang , Ergin Sezgin , Yoshiaki Tanii

We consider a class of 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) which have a large $N$ limit and a semi-classical gravity dual description. Using the quiver-like structure of 6D SCFTs we study a subsector of operators protected from large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-19 Jonathan J. Heckman

In conformal field theory, momentum eigenstates can be parameterized by a pair of real spinors, in terms of which special conformal transformations take a simpler form. This well-known fact allows to express 2-point functions of primary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-30 Marc Gillioz

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

We consider the analytic construction of three-point functions of conserved higher-spin supercurrents in three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal field theory which are Grassmann-odd in superspace. In particular, these include the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-13 Evgeny I. Buchbinder , Benjamin J. Stone

We analyze the properly normalized three-point correlator of two protected scalar operators and one higher spin twist-two operator in N=4 super Yang-Mills, in the limit of large spin j. The relevant structure constant can be extracted from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Luis F. Alday , Agnese Bissi

We study the map between two descriptions of the $T\bar{T}$ deformation of conformal field theory (CFT): One is the defining description as a deformation of CFT by the $T\bar{T}$-operator. The other is an alternative description as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-14 Shinji Hirano , Masaki Shigemori

Working in the context of the proposed duality between 3D higher spin gravity and 2D W_N minimal model CFTs, we compute a class of four-point functions in the bulk and on the boundary, and demonstrate precise agreement between them. This is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Eliot Hijano , Per Kraus , Eric Perlmutter