Chern-Simons-matter dualities with $SO$ and $USp$ gauge groups
Abstract
In the last few years several dualities were found between the low-energy behaviors of Chern-Simons-matter theories with unitary gauge groups coupled to scalars, and similar theories coupled to fermions. In this paper we generalize those dualities to orthogonal and symplectic gauge groups. In particular, we conjecture dualities between Chern-Simons theories coupled to real scalars in the fundamental representation, and coupled to real (Majorana) fermions in the fundamental. For these are just level-rank dualities of pure Chern-Simons theories, whose precise form we clarify. They lead us to propose new gapped boundary states of topological insulators and superconductors. For we get an interesting low-energy duality between free Majorana fermions and an Chern-Simons theory coupled to scalar fields (with ).
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@article{arxiv.1611.07874,
title = {Chern-Simons-matter dualities with $SO$ and $USp$ gauge groups},
author = {Ofer Aharony and Francesco Benini and Po-Shen Hsin and Nathan Seiberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.07874},
year = {2017}
}
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35 pages