Carving Out the End of the World or ( Superconformal Bootstrap in Six Dimensions )
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چکیده
We bootstrap N = (1, 0) superconformal field theories in six dimensions, by analyzing the four-point function of flavor current multiplets. Assuming E8 flavor group, we present universal bounds on the central charge CT and the flavor central charge CJ . Based on the numerical data, we conjecture that the rank-one E-string theory saturates the universal lower bound on CJ , and numerically determine the spectrum of long multiplets in the rank-one E-string theory. We comment on the possibility of solving the higher-rank E-string theories by bootstrap and thereby probing M-theory on AdS7 × S/Z2. Dedicated to John Schwarz on the occasion of his 75th birthday. ar X iv :1 70 5. 05 39 2v 1 [ he pth ] 1 5 M ay 2 01 7
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