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SCFT

Idea

CFT with supersymmetry

Examples

$d=2$

• 2d SCFT

  • NSR string

  • heterotic string

$d=4$

• N=4 D=4 super Yang-Mills theory

$d=6$

• 6d (2,0)-superconformal QFT

Applications

• mirror symmetry

Related concepts

• supersymmetric sigma-model

• AdS/CFT correspondence

References

Classification

• S. Minwalla, Restrictions imposed by superconformal invariance on quantum field theories Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 2, 781 (1998) (arXiv:hep-th/9712074).