Central charges of 2d superconformal defects

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2020)095MaRDI QIDQ779357zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Chalabi, Andy O'bannon, Brandon Robinson, Jacopo Sisti

Publication date 21 July 2020

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02857

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryAdS-CFT correspondencesupersymmetric gauge theorysupersymmetry and duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: In conformal field theories (CFTs) of dimension $d>3$, two-dimensional (2d) conformal defects are characterised in part by central charges defined via the defect's contribution to the trace anomaly. However, in general for interacting CFTs these central charges are difficult to calculate. For superconformal 2d defects in supersymmetric (SUSY) CFTs (SCFTs), we show how to compute these defect central charges from the SUSY partition function either on $S^d$ with defect along $S^2$, or on $S^{1}imes{S}^{d-1}$ with defect along $S^{1}imes{S}^1$. In the latter case we propose that defect central charges appear in an overall normalisation factor, as part of the SUSY Casimir energy. For 2d half-BPS defects in 4d $mathcalN=2$ SCFTs and in the 6d $mathcalN=(2,0)$ SCFT we obtain novel, exact results for defect central charges using existing results for partition functions computed using SUSY localisation, SUSY indices, and correspondences to 2d Liouville, Toda, and $q$-deformed Yang-Mills theories. Some of our results for defect central charges agree with those obtained previously via holography, showing that the latter are not just large-$N$ and/or strong-coupling limits, but are exact. Our methods can be straightforwardly extended to other superconformal defects, of various codimension, as we demonstrate for a 4d defect in the 6d $mathcalN=(2,0)$ SCFT.

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