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S-duality wall of SQCD from Toda braiding

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-10-28 v2

Abstract

Exact field theory dualities can be implemented by duality domain walls such that passing any operator through the interface maps it to the dual operator. This paper describes the S-duality wall of four-dimensional N=2{\cal N}=2 SU(N) SQCD with 2N hypermultiplets in terms of fields on the defect, namely three-dimensional N=2{\cal N}=2 SQCD with gauge group U(N-1) and 2N flavours, with a monopole superpotential. The theory is self-dual under a duality found by Benini, Benvenuti and Pasquetti, in the same way that T[SU(N)] (the S-duality wall of N=4{\cal N}=4 super Yang-Mills) is self-mirror. The domain-wall theory can also be realized as a limit of a USp(2N-2) gauge theory; it reduces to known results for N=2. The theory is found through the AGT correspondence by determining the braiding kernel of two semi-degenerate vertex operators in Toda CFT.

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@article{arxiv.1512.09128,
  title  = {S-duality wall of SQCD from Toda braiding},
  author = {Bruno Le Floch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.09128},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

v2: correct superpotential to fix symmetries, better introduction and references, 42 pages