Conformal field theories on deformed spheres, anomalies, and supersymmetry
We study the free energy of four-dimensional CFTs on deformed spheres. For generic nonsupersymmetric CFTs only the coefficient of the logarithmic divergence in the free energy is physical, which is an extremum for the round sphere. We then specialize to $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs where one can preserv...
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| Language: | English |
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SciPost
2021-03-01
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| Series: | SciPost Physics |
| Online Access: | https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.10.3.063 |