Curious aspects of three-dimensional N=1 SCFTs

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2018)004MaRDI QIDQ1783757zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Davide Gaiotto, Zohar Komargodski, Jingxiang Wu

Publication date 21 September 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02018

zbMATH Keywords

duality in gauge field theoriesnonperturbative effectssupersymmetric gauge theorysupersymmetry and duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Abstract: We study the dynamics of certain 3d $calN=1$ time reversal invariant theories. Such theories often have exact moduli spaces of supersymmetric vacua. We propose several dualities and we test these proposals by comparing the deformations and supersymmetric ground states. First, we consider a theory where time reversal symmetry is only emergent in the infrared and there exists (nonetheless) an exact moduli space of vacua. This theory has a dual description with manifest time reversal symmetry. Second, we consider some surprising facts about $calN=2$ $U(1)$ gauge theory coupled to two chiral superfields of charge 1. This theory is claimed to have emergent $SU(3)$ global symmetry in the infrared. We propose a dual Wess-Zumino description (i.e. a theory of scalars and fermions but no gauge fields) with manifest $SU(3)$ symmetry but only $calN=1$ supersymmetry. We argue that this Wess-Zumino model must have enhanced supersymmetry in the infrared. Finally, we make some brief comments about the dynamics of $calN=1$ $SU(N)$ gauge theory coupled to $N_f$ quarks in a time reversal invariant fashion. We argue that for $N_f<N$ there is a moduli space of vacua to all orders in perturbation theory but it is non-perturbatively lifted.

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