Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2011-08-19
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
49 pages, 8 figures, JHEP format. v2: References added. A new subsection with quantum corrections to monopole operators is inc
Scientific paper
We develop semiclassical methods to analyze the spectrum of BPS monopole operators for superconformal field theories in three dimensions with N=2 supersymmetry. We show that the chiral ring of the theory results from the semiclassical holomorphic quantization of the solution of classical BPS equations of motion on the cylinder. We apply this formalism to various theories. We also use these techniques to compare the chiral rings of theories that might be related to each other via Seiberg dualities in four dimensions. We find that the change of basis transformations that generate dualities in four dimensions (homological operations) generically do not work in three dimensions in the presence of Chern-Simons terms. Instead, new theories generally arise this way. When dualities are possible, the Chern-Simons couplings need to satisfy certain arithmetic congruences. We also determine the spectrum of R-charges of the chiral ring operators by assembling them on a Hilbert series and by minimizing the coefficient of the maximum pole relative to the trial R-charge. This is related to volume minimization in theories with dual supergravity setups.
Berenstein David
Romo Mauricio
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