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arxiv: 1312.5344 · v3 · pith:QGKTVDEBnew · submitted 2013-12-18 · ✦ hep-th

Infinite Chiral Symmetry in Four Dimensions

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We describe a new correspondence between four-dimensional conformal field theories with extended supersymmetry and two-dimensional chiral algebras. The meromorphic correlators of the chiral algebra compute correlators in a protected sector of the four-dimensional theory. Infinite chiral symmetry has far-reaching consequences for the spectral data, correlation functions, and central charges of any four-dimensional theory with ${\mathcal N}=2$ superconformal symmetry.

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