Evidence for the Strongest Version of the 4d a-Theorem, via a-Maximization Along RG Flows

Edwin Barnes, Ken Intriligator, Brian Wecht +1

In earlier work, we (KI and BW) gave a two line "almost proof" (for supersymmetric RG flows) of the weakest form of the conjectured 4d a-theorem, that a_{IR}<a_{UV}, using our resu…