Comments on Bounds on Central Charges in N=1 Superconformal Theories
arXiv:0812.0781 · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2009/07/010
Abstract
The ratio of central charges in four-dimensional CFTs has been suggested by Hofman and Maldacena to lie within an interval whose boundaries are fixed by the number of supersymmetries. We compute this ratio for a set of interacting N=1 superconformal field theories which arise as RG fixed points of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories with adjoint and fundamental matter. We do not find violations of the proposed bounds, which appear to be saturated by free field theories.
20 pages, 14 figures, harvmac, v2: a reference added