The action of N=4 Super Yang-Mills from a chiral primary operator

Abstract

Using the Vafa-Witten twisted version of N=4 Super Yang-Mills a subset of the supercharges actually relevant for the nonrenormalization properties of the theory is identified. In particular, a relationship between the gauge-fixed action and the chiral primary operator tr(ϕ)^2 is worked out. This result can be understood as an off-shell extension of the reduction formula introduced by Intriligator.

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