Benjamin Assel
The Infrared Physics of Bad Theories
Assel, Benjamin; Cremonesi, Stefano
Abstract
We study the complete moduli space of vacua of 3d N = 4 N=4 U ( N ) U(N) SQCD theories with N f Nf fundamentals, building on the algebraic description of the Coulomb branch, and deduce the low energy physics in any vacuum from the local geometry of the moduli space. We confirm previous claims for good and ugly SQCD theories, and show that bad theories flow to the same interacting fixed points as good theories with additional free twisted hypermultiplets. A Seiberg-like duality proposed for bad theories with N ≤ N f ≤ 2 N − 2 N≤Nf≤2N−2 is ruled out: the spaces of vacua of the putative dual theories are different. However such bad theories have a distinguished vacuum, which preserves all the global symmetries, whose infrared physics is that of the proposed dual. We finally explain previous results on sphere partition functions and elucidate the relation between the UV and IR R R-symmetry in this symmetric vacuum.
Citation
Assel, B., & Cremonesi, S. (2017). The Infrared Physics of Bad Theories. SciPost Physics, 3(3), Article 024. https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphys.3.3.024
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Sep 8, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Sep 28, 2017 |
Publication Date | Sep 28, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Aug 2, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 29, 2017 |
Journal | SciPost Physics. |
Print ISSN | 2542-4653 |
Electronic ISSN | 2542-4653 |
Publisher | SciPost |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 3 |
Issue | 3 |
Article Number | 024 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphys.3.3.024 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1380055 |
Related Public URLs | https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03403 |
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Copyright B. Assel and S. Cremonesi. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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