Author
Beem, C
Rastelli, L
van Rees, B
Journal title
Physical Review D
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.96.046014
Issue
4
Volume
96
Last updated
2024-04-11T08:30:11.643+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
Favourite
On
Publication type
Journal Article
Publication date
25 Aug 2017
Please contact us with feedback and comments about this page. Created on 24 Jul 2017 - 17:15.