Between Symmetry and Duality in Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theories

Shlomo S. Razamat; Orr Sela; Gabi Zafrir

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.071604

Between Symmetry and Duality in Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theories

Shlomo S. Razamat, Orr Sela, Gabi Zafrir

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We study two cases of interrelations between the enhancement of symmetries in the infrared (IR) and duality properties of supersymmetric quantum field theories in four dimensions. First, we discuss an SU(2) N=1 model with four flavors, singlet fields, and a superpotential. We show that this model flows to a conformal field theory with E6×U(1) global symmetry. The enhancement of the flavor symmetry follows from Seiberg duality. The second example is concerned with an SU(4) gauge theory with matter in the fundamental and antisymmetric representations. We argue that this model has enhanced SO(12) symmetry in the IR, and, guided by this enhancement, we deduce a new IR duality.

Original language	English
Article number	071604
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	120
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.071604
State	Published - 16 Feb 2018
Externally published	Yes

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