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

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2016)103zbMATH Open1390.81476arXiv1610.05311MaRDI QIDQ1636680FDOQ1636680

Prarit Agarwal, Kazunobu Maruyoshi, Jaewon Song

Publication date: 12 June 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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 $E_6$ 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 $(A_1,D_{2N-1})$ and $(A_1,D_{2N})$ respectively. This RG flow therefore allows us to compute the full superconformal index of the $(A_1,D_N)$ 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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05311

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryextended supersymmetrysupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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