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Redeeming Bad Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-15 v1

Abstract

We give a Seiberg-like dual description of the interacting superconformal infrared fixed point of N=4\mathcal{N}=4 gauge theory in three dimensions with vanishing Chern Simons level and NcNf<2NcN_c\le N_f<2N_c fundamental flavors. These theories are known as "bad" theories due to the existence of unitarity violating monopole operators. We show that, in a dual description, all such operators are realized by free fields and the remainder theory is the Seiberg-like dual previously identified using the type IIB brane construction.

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@article{arxiv.1303.2769,
  title  = {Redeeming Bad Theories},
  author = {Itamar Yaakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.2769},
  year   = {2015}
}
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