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Three Dimensional Mirror Symmetry beyond $ADE$ quivers and Argyres-Douglas theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-02-22 v3

Abstract

Mirror symmetry, a three dimensional N=4\mathcal{N}=4 IR duality, has been studied in detail for quiver gauge theories of the ADEADE-type (as well as their affine versions) with unitary gauge groups. The AA-type quivers (also known as linear quivers) and the associated mirror dualities have a particularly simple realization in terms of a Type IIB system of D3-D5-NS5-branes. In this paper, we present a systematic field theory prescription for constructing 3d mirror pairs beyond the ADEADE quiver gauge theories, starting from a dual pair of AA-type quivers with unitary gauge groups. The construction involves a certain generalization of the SS and the TT operations, which arise in the context of the SL(2,Z)SL(2,\mathbb{Z}) action on a 3d CFT with a U(1)U(1) 0-form global symmetry. We implement this construction in terms of two supersymmetric observables -- the round sphere partition function and the superconformal index on S2×S1S^2 \times S^1. We discuss explicit examples of various (non-ADEADE) infinite families of mirror pairs that can be obtained in this fashion. In addition, we use the above construction to conjecture explicit 3d N=4\mathcal{N}=4 Lagrangians for 3d SCFTs, which arise in the deep IR limit of certain Argyres-Douglas theories compactified on a circle.

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@article{arxiv.2004.09738,
  title  = {Three Dimensional Mirror Symmetry beyond $ADE$ quivers and Argyres-Douglas theories},
  author = {Anindya Dey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.09738},
  year   = {2023}
}

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(14+82) pages + appendices, many figures.Section 1 provides a brief summary of the paper. V2:Minor typos fixed, and references added, V3: Minor edits