Accidental symmetries and the conformal bootstrap

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2016)110MaRDI QIDQ1638151zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Shai M. Chester, Simone Giombi, Igor R. Klebanov, Silviu S. Pufu, Ran Yacoby, Luca V. Iliesiu

Publication date 12 June 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.04424

zbMATH Keywords

conformal and W symmetryglobal symmetriessupersymmetry and duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17)

Abstract: We study an $calN=2$ supersymmetric generalization of the three-dimensional critical $O(N)$ vector model that is described by $N+1$ chiral superfields with superpotential $W=g_{1}Xsu{m}_i{Z}_i^2+g_2{X}^3$. By combining the tools of the conformal bootstrap with results obtained through supersymmetric localization, we argue that this model exhibits a symmetry enhancement at the infrared superconformal fixed point due to $g_2$ flowing to zero. This example is special in that the existence of an infrared fixed point with $g_1,g_{2}eq0$, which does not exhibit symmetry enhancement, does not generally lead to any obvious unitarity violations or other inconsistencies. We do show, however, that the $F$-theorem excludes the models with $g_1,g_{2}eq0$ for $N>5$. The conformal bootstrap provides a stronger constraint and excludes such models for $N>2$. We provide evidence that the $g_2=0$ models, which have the enhanced $O(N)imesU(1)$ symmetry, come close to saturating the bootstrap bounds. We extend our analysis to fractional dimensions where we can motivate the nonexistence of the $g_1,g_{2}eq0$ models by studying them perturbatively in the $4-epsilon$ expansion.

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