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Theory Group
Theory Group Seminar, 16 September 2014


Dr. Matthew Buican, Rutgers University

Constraints on Chiral Operators in N=2 SCFTs and Implications for Theory Space

abstract

I will discuss certain exotic higher-spin chiral operators that are, in principle, allowed by the N=2 superconformal algebra. However, I will use the OPE and superconformal index to argue that in very broad classes of theories such operators are necessarily absent. Time permitting, I will describe implications of the absence of such operators on the topology of theory space.



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