Type-B anomaly matching and the 6D (2,0) theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2020)048zbMATH Open1436.83089arXiv1911.05827MaRDI QIDQ780691FDOQ780691

Authors: Vasilis Niarchos, Constantinos Papageorgakis, Elli Pomoni 

Publication date: 15 July 2020

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

Abstract: We study type-B conformal anomalies associated with $frac12$-BPS Coulomb-branch operators in 4D $mathcalN=2$ superconformal field theories. When the vacuum preserves the conformal symmetry these anomalies coincide with the two-point function coefficients in the Coulomb-branch chiral ring. They are non-trivial functions of exactly-marginal couplings that can be determined from the $S^4$ partition function. In this paper, we examine the fate of these anomalies in vacua of the Higgs-branch moduli space, where conformal symmetry is spontaneously broken. We argue non-perturbatively that these anomalies are covariantly constant on conformal manifolds. In some cases, this can be used to show that they match in the broken and unbroken phases. Thus, we uncover a new class of data on the Higgs branch of 4D $mathcalN=2$ conformal field theories that are exactly computable. An interesting application of this matching occurs in $mathcalN=2$ circular quivers that deconstruct the 6D (2,0) theory on a torus. In that context, we argue that 4D supersymmetric localisation can be used to calculate non-trivial data involving $frac12$-BPS operators of the 6D theory as exact functions of the complex structure of the torus.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05827

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryanomalies in field and string theoriesextended supersymmetrysupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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