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We describe a new correspondence between four-dimensional conformal field theories with extended supersymmetry and two-dimensional chiral algebras. The meromorphic correlators of the chiral algebra compute correlators in a protected sector of the four-dimensional theory. Infinite chiral symmetry has far-reaching consequences for the spectral data, correlation functions, and central charges of any four-dimensional theory with \({\mathcal{N}=2}\) superconformal symmetry.
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Beem, C., Lemos, M., Liendo, P. et al. Infinite Chiral Symmetry in Four Dimensions. Commun. Math. Phys. 336, 1359–1433 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-014-2272-x
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