4D \mathcal{N}=2 SCFTs and spin chains

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AB7F66zbMATH Open1519.81438arXiv1912.00870MaRDI QIDQ6330263FDOQ6330263

Authors: Elli Pomoni 

Publication date: 2 December 2019

Abstract: This is the writeup of the lectures given at the Winter School "YRISW 2018" to appear in a special issue of JPhysA. In the first part of these lecture notes we review some important facts about 4D $mathcalN=2$ SCFTs. We begin with basic textbook material, the supersymmetry algebra and its massless representations and the construction of Lagrangians using superspace. Then we turn to more modern topics, the study of the $mathcalN=2$ SCA and its representation theory. Our intention is to understand how much we can learn from representation theory alone, even about the dynamics of $mathcalN=2$ SCFTs. In the second part of the notes we use these tools to construct spin chains for $mathcalN=2$ SCFTs, the spectral problem of which computes anomalous dimensions of local operators. We discuss their novel features comparing them with their counterparts in $mathcalN=4$ SYM and search for possible integrability structures that emerge.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23) Correspondence, duality, holography (AdS/CFT, gauge/gravity, etc.) (81T35)

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