Abstract
We construct a four supercharges Liouville superconformal field theory in four dimensions. The Liouville superfield is chiral and its lowest component is a log-correlated complex scalar whose real part carries a background charge. The action consists of a supersymmetric Paneitz operator, a background supersymmetric Q-curvature charge and an exponential potential. It localizes semiclassically on solutions that describe curved superspaces with a constant complex supersymmetric Q-curvature. The theory is nonunitary with a continuous spectrum of scaling dimensions. We study the dynamics on the supersymmetric 4-sphere, show that the classical background charge is not corrected quantum mechanically and calculate the super-Weyl anomaly. We derive an integral form for the correlation functions of vertex operators.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 122 |
| Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
| Volume | 2018 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Dec 2018 |
Keywords
- Anomalies in Field and String Theories
- Conformal Field Theory
- Field Theories in Higher Dimensions
- Supergravity Models
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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