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3d N = 4 bootstrap and mirror symmetry

  • Chi Ming Chang
  • , Martin Fluder
  • , Ying Hsuan Lin
  • , Shu Heng Shao
  • , Yifan Wang

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Abstract

We investigate the non-BPS realm of 3d N = 4 superconformal field theory by uniting the non-perturbative methods of the conformal bootstrap and supersymmetric localization, and utilizing special features of 3d N = 4 theories such as mirror symmetry and a protected sector described by topological quantum mechanics (TQM). Supersymmetric localization allows for the exact determination of the conformal and flavor central charges, and the latter can be fed into the mini-bootstrap of the TQM to solve for a subset of the OPE data. We examine the implications of the Z2 mirror action for the SCFT singleand mixed-branch crossing equations for the moment map operators, and apply numerical bootstrap to obtain universal constraints on OPE data for given flavor symmetry groups. A key ingredient in applying the bootstrap analysis is the determination of the mixed-branch superconformal blocks. Among other results, we show that the simplest known self-mirror theory with SU(2) × SU(2) flavor symmetry saturates our bootstrap bounds, which allows us to extract the non-BPS data and examine the self-mirror Z2 symmetry thereof.

Original languageEnglish
Article number097
JournalSciPost Physics
Volume10
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2021

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