Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2011-12-01
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
32 pages, clarification of constraints and references added
Scientific paper
We extend SO(4,2) covariant lightcone embedding methods of four-dimensional CFTs to N=1 superconformal field theory (SCFT). Manifest superconformal SU(2,2|1) invariance is achieved by realizing 4D superconformal space as a surface embedded in the projective superspace spanned by certain complex chiral supermatrices. Because SU(2,2|1) acts linearly on the ambient space, the constraints on correlators implied by superconformal Ward identities are automatically solved in this formalism. Applications include new, compact expressions for correlation functions containing one anti-chiral superfield and arbitrary chiral superfield insertions, and manifestly invariant expressions for the superconformal cross-ratios that parametrize the four-point function of two chiral and two anti-chiral fields. Superconformal expressions for the leading singularities in the OPE of chiral and anti-chiral operators are also given. Because of covariance, our expressions are valid in any superconformally flat background, e.g., AdS_4 or R times S^3. Many of the results we derive are actually valid for extended superconformal symmetry, although our explicit four-dimensional results are restricted to the SU(2,2|1) case.
Goldberger Walter D.
Skiba Witold
Son Minho
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