Bootstrapping SCFTs with four supercharges

Nikolay Bobev, Sheer El-Showk, Dalimil Mazáč, Miguel F. Paulos
2015 Journal of High Energy Physics  
We study the constraints imposed by superconformal symmetry, crossing symmetry, and unitarity for theories with four supercharges in spacetime dimension 2≤ d≤ 4. We show how superconformal algebras with four Poincaré supercharges can be treated in a formalism applicable to any, in principle continuous, value of d and use this to construct the superconformal blocks for any d≤ 4. We then use numerical bootstrap techniques to derive upper bounds on the conformal dimension of the first unprotected
more » ... perator appearing in the OPE of a chiral and an anti-chiral superconformal primary. We obtain an intriguing structure of three distinct kinks. We argue that one of the kinks smoothly interpolates between the d=2, N=(2,2) minimal model with central charge c=1 and the theory of a free chiral multiplet in d=4, passing through the critical Wess-Zumino model with cubic superpotential in intermediate dimensions.
doi:10.1007/jhep08(2015)142 fatcat:w3buy3wncbb7be4254tfpx5wf4