Accidental symmetries and the conformal bootstrap

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2016)110zbMATH Open1388.81382arXiv1507.04424MaRDI QIDQ1638151FDOQ1638151

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)

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal and W symmetryglobal symmetriessupersymmetry and duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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