On the two-loop four-derivative quantum corrections in 4D N=2 superconformal field theories

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2004.01.034zbMATH Open1107.81337arXivhep-th/0310025OpenAlexW2043405188MaRDI QIDQ874004FDOQ874004

Authors: Sergei M. Kuzenko, I. McArthur 

Publication date: 4 April 2007

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In cN = 2, 4 superconformal field theories in four space-time dimensions, the quantum corrections with four derivatives are believed to be severely constrained by non-renormalization theorems. The strongest of these is the conjecture formulated by Dine and Seiberg in hep-th/9705057 that such terms are generated only at one loop. In this note, using the background field formulation in cN = 1 superspace, we test the Dine-Seiberg proposal by comparing the two-loop F^4 quantum corrections in two different superconformal theories with the same gauge group SU(N): (i) cN = 4 SYM (i.e. cN = 2 SYM with a single adjoint hypermultiplet); (ii) cN = 2 SYM with 2N hypermultiplets in the fundamental. According to the Dine-Seiberg conjecture, these theories should yield identical two-loop F^4 contributions from all the supergraphs involving quantum hypermultiplets, since the pure cN = 2 SYM and ghost sectors are identical provided the same gauge conditions are chosen. We explicitly evaluate the relevant two-loop supergraphs and observe that the F^4 corrections generated have different large N behaviour in the two theories under consideration. Our results are in conflict with the Dine-Seiberg conjecture.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0310025

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Feynman diagrams (81T18) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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