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Chern-Simons-matter dualities with $SO$ and $USp$ gauge groups

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2017-03-08 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

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 SO(N)kSO(N)_k Chern-Simons theories coupled to NfN_f real scalars in the fundamental representation, and SO(k)N+Nf/2SO(k)_{-N+N_f/2} coupled to NfN_f real (Majorana) fermions in the fundamental. For Nf=0N_f=0 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 k=1k=1 we get an interesting low-energy duality between NfN_f free Majorana fermions and an SO(N)1SO(N)_1 Chern-Simons theory coupled to NfN_f scalar fields (with NfN2N_f \leq N-2).

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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

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