Explanation of the central charge ratio 27/32 in four-dimensional renormalization group flows between superconformal theories

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Tachikawa, Yuji ^a   Wecht, Brian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2-THEORIES; ADJOINTS; CHARGE RATIO; FIELD THEORY; LARGE N; LINEAR TRANSFORMATION; RENORMALIZATION GROUP;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 68749100967     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.061601     Document Type: Article

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