Journal title
              Physical Review D
          DOI
              10.1103/PhysRevD.96.046014
          Issue
              4
          Volume
              96
          Last updated
              2025-07-15T16:59:49.717+01:00
          Page
              046014
          Abstract
              In this long overdue second installment, we continue to develop the conformal bootstrap program for N=4 superconformal field theories in four dimensions via an analysis of the correlation function of four stress-tensor supermultiplets. We review analytic results for this correlator and make contact with the SCFT/chiral algebra correspondence of arXiv:1312.5344. We demonstrate that the constraints of unitarity and crossing symmetry require the central charge c to be greater than or equal to 3/4 in any interacting N=4 SCFT. We apply numerical bootstrap methods to derive upper bounds on scaling dimensions and OPE coefficients for several low-lying, unprotected operators as a function of the central charge. We interpret our bounds in the context of N=4 super Yang-Mills (SYM) theories, formulating a series of conjectures regarding the embedding of the conformal manifold --- parametrized by the complexified gauge coupling --- into the space of scaling dimensions and OPE coefficients. Our conjectures assign a distinguished role to points on the conformal manifold that are self-dual under a subgroup of the S-duality group. This paper contains a more detailed exposition of a number of results previously reported in arXiv:1304.1803 in addition to new results.
          Symplectic ID
              709075
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          Publication type
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          Publication date
              25 Aug 2017
           
    