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Chern-Simons and RG Flows: Contact with Dualities

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-19 v2

Abstract

Contact terms in two point functions of global symmetry currents have recently been proposed as a check of Seiberg-like duality in three dimensional supersymmetric field theories. In this paper we compute the contact terms for various N=2 dual pairs in flat space. We show that the results of this computation agree with the ones obtained from localization. We study dual pairs of gauge theories with (anti-)fundamental matter fields, and some special examples of dual pairs with adjoint and antisymmetric matter fields. We also propose a duality between unitary and symplectic gauge theories.

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@article{arxiv.1405.2312,
  title  = {Chern-Simons and RG Flows: Contact with Dualities},
  author = {Antonio Amariti and Claudius Klare},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.2312},
  year   = {2015}
}

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29 pages, minor corrections and one reference added

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