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Electric/Magnetic Duality with Gauge Singlets

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-12-17 v1

Abstract

We demonstrate how gauge singlets can be used to find new examples of Kutasov duality (i.e. where the matching of the dual theories relies on a non-zero superpotential) in N}=1 SU(N) SQCD with F_Q flavours of quark and multiple generations of adjoints, or antisymmetrics, or symmetrics. The role of the singlets is to simplify greatly the truncation of the chiral ring whilst maintaining an R-symmetry, and at the same time allowing an unambiguous identification of the elementary mesons of the magnetic theory. The dual theories satisfy all the usual tests, including the highly non-trivial 't Hooft anomaly matching conditions.

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@article{arxiv.0903.1313,
  title  = {Electric/Magnetic Duality with Gauge Singlets},
  author = {Steven Abel and James Barnard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.1313},
  year   = {2010}
}

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31 pages, 2 figures

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