N =1 deformations and RG flows of N =2 SCFTs. II: Non-principal deformations

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Abstract: We continue to investigate the mathcalN=1 deformations of four-dimensional mathcalN=2 superconformal field theories (SCFTs) labeled by a nilpotent element of the flavor symmetry. This triggers a renormalization group (RG) flow to an mathcalN=1 SCFT. We systematically analyze all possible deformations of this type for certain classes of mathcalN=2 SCFTs: conformal SQCDs, generalized Argyres-Douglas theories and the E6 SCFT. We find a number of examples where the amount of supersymmetry gets enhanced to mathcalN=2 at the end point of the RG flow. Most notably, we find that the SU(N) and Sp(N) conformal SQCDs can be deformed to flow to the Argyres-Douglas (AD) theories of type (A1,D2N−1) and (A1,D2N) respectively. This RG flow therefore allows us to compute the full superconformal index of the (A1,DN) class of AD theories. Moreover, we find an infrared duality between mathcalN=1 theories where the fixed point is described by an mathcalN=2 AD theory. We observe that the classes of examples that exhibit supersymmetry enhancement saturate certain bounds for the central charges implied by the associated two-dimensional chiral algebra.



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