Geometry of Higgs-branch superconformal primary bundles
Geometry of Higgs-branch superconformal primary bundles
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作者:
V. Niarchos
It is known that the two- and three-point functions of Higgs-branch superconformal primaries in 4d
N
=
2
superconformal field theories obey nonrenormalization theorems on
N
=
2
superconformal manifolds. In this paper, we prove a stronger statement—that the bundles of Higgs-branch superconformal primaries over
N
=
2
superconformal manifolds are endowed with a flat connection or, equivalently, that Higgs-branch superconformal primaries have vanishing Berry phases under
N
=
2
exactly marginal deformations. This statement fits well with the proposed correspondence between the rigid structures of two-dimensional chiral algebras and the sector of Schur operators in four-dimensional
N
=
2
theories. We also discuss the general interplay between nonrenormalization theorems and the curvature of bundles of protected operators and provide a new simpler proof of the vanishing curvature of
1
/
2
-BPS operators in four-dimensional
N
=
4
SYM theory that does not require the use of the four-dimensional
t
t
∗
equations.