Nonsupersymmetric dualities from mirror symmetry
High Energy Physics - Theory
2017-01-11 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
We study supersymmetry breaking perturbations of the simplest dual pair of 2+1-dimensional N = 2 supersymmetric field theories -- the free chiral multiplet and N = 2 super-QED with a single flavor. We find dual descriptions of a phase diagram containing four distinct massive phases. The equivalence of the intervening critical theories gives rise to several non-supersymmetric avatars of mirror symmetry: we find dualities relating scalar QED to a free fermion and Wilson-Fisher theories to both scalar and fermionic QED. Thus, mirror symmetry can be viewed as the multicritical parent duality from which these non-supersymmetric dualities directly descend.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1609.02149,
title = {Nonsupersymmetric dualities from mirror symmetry},
author = {Shamit Kachru and Michael Mulligan and Gonzalo Torroba and Huajia Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.02149},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures; v2: new title, adds refs, fixed typos