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Twin conformal field theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-04-02 v2

Abstract

Supersymmetric theories with the same bosonic content but different fermions, aka \emph{twins}, were thought to exist only for supergravity. Here we show that pairs of super conformal field theories, for example exotic N=3\mathcal{N}=3 and N=1\mathcal{N}=1 theories in D=4D=4 spacetime dimensions, can also be twin. We provide evidence from three different perspectives: (i) a twin S-fold construction, (ii) a double-copy argument and (iii) by identifying candidate twin holographically dual gauged supergravity theories. Furthermore, twin W-supergravity theories then follow by applying the double-copy prescription to exotic super conformal field theories.

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@article{arxiv.1812.11130,
  title  = {Twin conformal field theories},
  author = {L. Borsten and M. J. Duff and A. Marrani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.11130},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

28 pages. Updated to match published version. References and brief comments added

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