Gauging and decoupling in 3d N =2 dualities

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2016)077zbMATH Open1388.81857arXiv1603.02283OpenAlexW3123990806MaRDI QIDQ1638784FDOQ1638784

Authors: Jeongseog Lee, Masahito Yamazaki 

Publication date: 12 June 2018

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

Abstract: One interesting feature of 3d $mathcalN=2$ theories is that gauge-invariant operators can decouple by strong-coupling effects, leading to emergent flavor symmetries in the IR. The details of such decoupling, however, depends very delicately on the gauge group and matter content of the theory. We here systematically study the IR behavior of 3d $mathcalN=2$ SQCD with $N_f$ flavors, for gauge groups $mathrmSU(N_c),mathrmUSp(2N_c)$ and $mathrmSO(N_c)$. We apply a combination of analytical and numerical methods, both to small values of $N_c,N_f$ and also to the Veneziano limit, where $N_c$ and $N_f$ are taken to be large with their ratio $N_f/N_c$ fixed. We highlight the role of the monopole operators and the interplay with Aharony-type dualities. We also discuss the effect of gauging continuous as well as discrete flavor symmetries, and the implications of our analysis to the classification of $1/4$--BPS co-dimension 2 defects of 6d $(2,0)$ theories.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02283

zbMATH Keywords

duality in gauge field theoriessupersymmetric gauge theorysupersymmetry and duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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