Skip to content

Universality of the Operator Product Expansions of SCFT4

D. Anselmi, D. Z. Freedman, M. T. Grisaru, A. A. Johansen

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9608125

Abstract

We study the operator product algebra of the supercurrent J and Konishi superfield K in four-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories. The Konishi superfield appears in the JJ OPE and the algebra is characterized by two central charges c and c' and an anomalous dimension h for K. In free field (one-loop) approximation, c~3Nv+Nχand c'~Nχ, where Nv and Nχare, respectively, the number of vector and chiral multiplets in the theory. In higher order c, c' and h depend on the gauge and Yukawa couplings and we obtain the two-loop contributions by combining earlier work on c with our own calculations of c'. The major result is that the radiative corrections to the central charges cancel when the one-loop beta-functions vanish, suggesting that c and c' (but not h) are invariant under continuous deformations of superconformal theories. The behavior of c and c' along renormalization group flows is studied from the viewpoint of a c-theorem.

Create a lesson