Conformal anomaly c-coefficients of superconformal 6d theories

Abstract

We propose general relations between the conformal anomaly and the chiral (R-symmetry and gravitational) anomaly coefficients in 6d (1,0) superconformal theories. The suggested expressions for the three type B conformal anomaly c-coefficients complement the expression for the type A anomaly a-coefficient found in arXiv:1506.03807. We check them on several examples -- the standard (1,0) hyper and tensor multiplets as well as some higher derivative short multiplets containing vector fields that generalize the superconformal 6d vector multiplet discussed in arXiv:1506.08727. We also consider a family of higher derivative superconformal (2,0) 6d multiplets associated to 7d multiplets in the KK spectrum of 11d supergravity compactified on S^4. In particular, we prove that (2,0) 6d conformal supergravity coupled to 26 tensor multiplets is free of all chiral and conformal anomalies. We discuss some interacting (1,0) superconformal theories, predicting the c-coefficients for the "E-string" theory on multiple M5-branes at E_8 9-brane and for the theory describing M5-branes at an orbifold singularity. Finally, we elaborate on holographic computation of subleading corrections to conformal anomaly coefficients coming from R^2+R^3 terms in 7d effective action, revisiting, in particular, the (2,0) theory case.

32 pages, v4: Added footnotes 8, 25, 26 clarifying that the available data leads to a 1-parameter family of the conformal anomaly coefficients c_1, c_2 as functions of chiral anomaly coefficients; the results for c_i in recent arXiv:1702.03518 also belong to this family

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