Authors: Matthew Buican Simone Giacomelli Takahiro Nishinaka Constantinos Papageorgakis
Publish Date: 2015/02/27
Volume: 2015, Issue: 2, Pages: 185-
Abstract
We generalize Sduality to mathcalN=2 superconformal field theories SCFTs with Coulomb branch operators of noninteger scaling dimension As simple examples we find minimal generalizations of the Sdualities discovered in SU2 gauge theory with four fundamental flavors by Seiberg and Witten and in SU3 gauge theory with six fundamental flavors by Argyres and Seiberg Our constructions start by weakly gauging diagonal SU2 and SU3 flavor symmetry subgroups of two copies of a particular rankone ArgyresDouglas theory along with sufficient numbers of hypermultiplets to guarantee conformality of the gauging As we explore the resulting conformal manifold of the SU2 SCFT we find an action of Sduality on the parameters of the theory that is reminiscent of Spin8 triality On the other hand as we explore the conformal manifold of the SU3 theory we find that an exotic ranktwo SCFT emerges in a dual SU2 descriptionThis article is published under an open access license Please check the Copyright Information section for details of this license and what reuse is permitted If your intended use exceeds what is permitted by the license or if you are unable to locate the licence and reuse information please contact the Rights and Permissions team
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