Topological anti-topological fusion in four-dimensional superconformal field theories
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| Publication date | 2010 |
| Journal | The Journal of High Energy Physics |
| Volume | Issue number | 2010 | 8 |
| Pages (from-to) | 118 |
| Number of pages | 35 |
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| Abstract |
We present some new exact results for general four-dimensional superconformal field theories. We derive differential equations governing the coupling constant dependence of chiral primary correlators. For N=2 theories we show that the Zamolodchikov metric on the moduli space and the operator mixing of chiral primaries are quasi-topological quantities and constrained by holomorphy. The equations that we find are the four-dimensional analogue of the tt* equations in two-dimensions, discovered by the method of "topological anti-topological fusion" by Cecotti and Vafa. Our analysis relies on conformal perturbation theory and the superconformal Ward identities and does not use a topological twist.
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| Document type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2010)118 |
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