Supersymmetry on curved spaces and superconformal anomalies

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2013)025zbMATH Open1342.81561arXiv1307.6567WikidataQ64038289 ScholiaQ64038289MaRDI QIDQ737703FDOQ737703

Authors: Davide Cassani, Dario Martelli 

Publication date: 12 August 2016

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

Abstract: We study the consequences of unbroken rigid supersymmetry of four-dimensional field theories placed on curved manifolds. We show that in Lorentzian signature the background vector field coupling to the R-current is determined by the Weyl tensor of the background metric. In Euclidean signature, the same holds if two supercharges of opposite R-charge are preserved, otherwise the (anti-)self-dual part of the vector field-strength is fixed by the Weyl tensor. As a result of this relation, the trace and R-current anomalies of superconformal field theories simplify, with the trace anomaly becoming purely topological. In particular, in Lorentzian signature, or in the presence of two Euclidean supercharges of opposite R-charge, supersymmetry of the background implies that the term proportional to the central charge c vanishes, both in the trace and R-current anomalies. This is equivalent to the vanishing of a superspace Weyl invariant. We comment on the implications of our results for holography.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.6567

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zbMATH Keywords

algebraic geometryanomalies in field and string theoriesdifferential geometrysupersymmetric gauge theoryadscft correspondence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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