Perturbative Methods for Superconformal Quantum Field Theories in String - Gauge Theory Dualities

Abstract

This review covers a number of applications of conformal field theory methods for perturbative calculations in N=4 Super Yang-Mills and ABJM theory. After motivating the role of superconformal symmetry for elementary particle physics research, we review some basic facts about conformal symmetry and conformal transformations of fields in a pedagogical manner. The implications for perturbative quantum field theory calculations are discussed in terms of Ward identities. Recent developments and relations between amplitudes, correlators and Wilson loops are reviewed for N=4 Super Yang-Mills as well as ABJM theory. We give more details on previously published results on light-like polygonal Wilson loops in ABJM theory as well as the calculation of three-point functions of two BPS and one twist-two operator in N=4 Super Yang-Mills theory.

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