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Notes on Superconformal Chern-Simons-Matter Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-05-05 v1

Abstract

The three dimensional N=2 supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory coupled to matter fields, possibly deformed by a superpotential, give rise to a large class of exactly conformal theories with Lagrangian descriptions. These theories can be arbitrarily weakly coupled, and hence can be studied perturbatively. We study the theories in the large N limit, and compute the two-loop anomalous dimension of certain long operators. Our result suggests that various N=2 U(N) Chern-Simons theories coupled to suitable matter fields are dual to open or closed string theories in AdS4, which are not yet constructed.

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@article{arxiv.0704.3740,
  title  = {Notes on Superconformal Chern-Simons-Matter Theories},
  author = {Davide Gaiotto and Xi Yin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.3740},
  year   = {2011}
}
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