Infinite Chiral Symmetry in Four Dimensions
Abstract
We describe a new correspondence between four-dimensional conformal field theories with extended supersymmetry and two-dimensional chiral algebras. The meromorphic correlators of the chiral algebra compute correlators in a protected sector of the four-dimensional theory. Infinite chiral symmetry has far-reaching consequences for the spectral data, correlation functions, and central charges of any four-dimensional theory with superconformal symmetry.
- Publication:
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Communications in Mathematical Physics
- Pub Date:
- June 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s00220-014-2272-x
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1312.5344
- Bibcode:
- 2015CMaPh.336.1359B
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 75 pages. v3: minor corrections. Final version -- published in Communications in Mathematical Physics