Null line defects preserve a large conformal algebra that constrains their correlators to shockwave-plane discontinuities, and a restricted test-function space resolves the ill-defined ultraboosted gauge potential.
Vertex algebra of extended operators in 4d N=2 superconformal field theories
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We construct a class of extended operators in the cohomology of a pair of twisted Schur supercharges of 4d N=2 SCFTs. The extended operators are constructed from the local operators in this cohomology -- the Schur operators -- by a version of topological descent. They are line, surface, and domain wall world volume integrals of certain super descendants of Schur operators. Their world volumes extend in directions transverse to a spatial plane in Minkowski space-time. As operators in the cohomology of these twisted Schur supercharges, their correlators are (locally) meromorphic functions only of the positions where they intersect this plane. This implies the extended operators enlarge the vertex operator algebra of the Schur operators. We illustrate this enlarged vertex algebra by computing some extended-operator product expansions within a subalgebra of it for the free hypermultiplet SCFT.
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Do null defects dream of conformal symmetry?
Null line defects preserve a large conformal algebra that constrains their correlators to shockwave-plane discontinuities, and a restricted test-function space resolves the ill-defined ultraboosted gauge potential.