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Abelian dualities of $\mathcal{N}=(0,4)$ boundary conditions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-09-02 v3

Abstract

We propose dual pairs of N=(0,4)\mathcal{N}=(0,4) half-BPS boundary conditions for 3d N=4\mathcal{N}=4 Abelian gauge theories related to mirror symmetry and S-duality by showing the matching of boundary 't Hooft anomalies and supersymmetric indices. We find simple N=(0,4)\mathcal{N}=(0,4) mirror symmetry between 2d N=(0,4)\mathcal{N}=(0,4) Abelian gauge theories and free Fermi multiplets that generalizes N=(0,2)\mathcal{N}=(0,2) Abelian duality. We also propose a prescription for computing half-index of enriched Neumann boundary condition including 2d boundary bosonic matters by gauging the 2d boundary flavor symmetry of Dirichlet boundary condition. By coupling N=(0,4)\mathcal{N}=(0,4) half-BPS boundary configurations of 3d N=4\mathcal{N}=4 gauge theories to quarter-BPS corner configurations of 4d N=4\mathcal{N}=4 Super Yang-Mills theories, we further obtain a new type of 4d-3d-2d duality that may involve 3d non-Abelian gauge symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.1905.07425,
  title  = {Abelian dualities of $\mathcal{N}=(0,4)$ boundary conditions},
  author = {Tadashi Okazaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.07425},
  year   = {2019}
}

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81 pages, 17 figures, v3: published version