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Bootstrapping SCFTs with four supercharges

Journal

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 8, Pages -

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2015)142

Keywords

Supersymmetric gauge theory; Field Theories in Lower Dimensions; Conformal and W Symmetry

Funding

  1. KU Leuven [BOF/STG/14/032]
  2. COST Action [MP1210]
  3. European Science Foundation Holograv Network
  4. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
  5. Government of Canada through Industry Canada
  6. Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research and Innovation
  7. Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship of the European Community's 7th Framework Programme [PIEF-GA-2013-623606]
  8. US DOE-grant [DE-SC0010010]
  9. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0010010] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

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We study the constraints imposed by superconformal symmetry, crossing symmetry, and unitarity for theories with four supercharges in spacetime dimension 2 <= d <= 4. We show how superconformal algebras with four Poincare supercharges can be treated in a formalism applicable to any, in principle continuous, value of d and use this to construct the superconformal blocks for any d <= 4. We then use numerical bootstrap techniques to derive upper bounds on the conformal dimension of the first unprotected operator appearing in the OPE of a chiral and an anti-chiral superconformal primary. We obtain an intriguing structure of three distinct kinks. We argue that one of the kinks smoothly interpolates between the d = 2, IV = (2, 2) minimal model with central charge c = 1 and the theory of a free chiral multiplet in d = 4, passing through the critical Wess-Zumino model with cubic superpotential in intermediate dimensions.

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