$\mathcal{N}=2$ Argyres-Douglas theories, $\mathcal{N}=1$ SQCD and Seiberg duality
Abstract
We revisit the study of singular points in the Coulomb branch of SQCD in four dimensions with gauge group and odd number of flavors. For certain choices of the mass parameters these vacua are not lifted by a mass term for the chiral multiplet in the adjoint representation. By using recent results about the M5 brane description of theories we study the resulting vacua and argue that the low-energy effective theory has a simple Lagrangian description involving a free chiral multiplet in the adjoint representation of the flavor symmetry group, a system somewhat reminiscent of the standard low-energy pion description of the real-world QCD. This fact is quite remarkable in view of the fact that the underlying SCFT (the Argyres-Douglas systems) are strongly-coupled non-local theories of quarks and monopoles.
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@article{arxiv.1505.05801,
title = {$\mathcal{N}=2$ Argyres-Douglas theories, $\mathcal{N}=1$ SQCD and Seiberg duality},
author = {Stefano Bolognesi and Simone Giacomelli and Kenichi Konishi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.05801},
year = {2015}
}
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29 pages, 1 figure; v2: minor changes