Theory HEP Seminar

The N = 4 Superconformal Bootstrap

Balt van Rees

Stony Brook

We implement the conformal bootstrap for N = 4 superconformal field theories in four dimensions. Consistency of the four-point function of the stress-energy tensor multiplet imposes significant upper bounds for the scaling dimensions of unprotected local operators as functions of the central charge of the theory. At the threshold of exclusion, a particular operator spectrum appears to be singled out by the bootstrap constraints. For large values of the central charge, this extremal spectrum is compatible with that of supergravity in AdS5X S5. For finite central charge, we conjecture that the extremal spectrum is that of N = 4 SYM at an S-duality invariant value of the complexi ed gauge coupling.