3d exceptional gauge theories and boundary confinement
Abstract
We find boundary confining dualities of 3d supersymmetric gauge theories with exceptional gauge groups. The half-indices which enumerate the boundary BPS local operators in the presence of Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions for gauge fields are identified with the Askey-Wilson type -beta integrals and Macdonald type sums respectively. New conjectural identities of and integrals and sums are derived from the boundary confining dualities. We also consider theories with a vector multiplet and adjoint chiral, which correspond to an vector multiplet, with appropriate boundary conditions. We argue for the boundary confinement of the vector multiplet and comment on such theories also with classical gauge groups.
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@article{arxiv.2308.14428,
title = {3d exceptional gauge theories and boundary confinement},
author = {Tadashi Okazaki and Douglas J. Smith},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.14428},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
39 pages, v2: published version in JHEP