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Network and Seiberg Duality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-03-20 v2

Abstract

We define and study a new class of 4d N=1 superconformal quiver gauge theories associated with a planar bipartite network. While UV description is not unique due to Seiberg duality, we can classify the IR fixed points of the theory by a permutation, or equivalently a cell of the totally non-negative Grassmannian. The story is similar to a bipartite network on the torus classified by a Newton polygon. We then generalize the network to a general bordered Riemann surface and define IR SCFT from the geometric data of a Riemann surface. We also comment on IR R-charges and superconformal indices of our theories.

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@article{arxiv.1207.0811,
  title  = {Network and Seiberg Duality},
  author = {Dan Xie and Masahito Yamazaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.0811},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

28 pages, 28 figures; v2: minor corrections

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