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
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
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.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2010)118
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