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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
N=4 superconformal bootstrap
Christopher Beem1, Leonardo Rastelli, Balt C van Rees
1Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University (SUNY), Stony Brook, New York 11794-3636, USA.
Abstract:
We implement the conformal bootstrap for N=4 superconformal field theories in four dimensions. The consistency of the four-point function of the stress-energy tensor multiplet imposes significant upper bounds for the scaling dimensions of unprotected local operators as functions of the central charge of the theory. At the threshold of exclusion, a particular operator spectrum appears to be singled out by the bootstrap constraints. We conjecture that this extremal spectrum is that of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at an S-duality invariant value of the complexified gauge coupling.
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