Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2011-09-23
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
28 pages. v2: minor changes, added references
Scientific paper
We study three dimensional N=2 supersymmetric QCD theories with O(N_c) gauge groups and with N_f chiral multiplets in the vector representation. We argue that for N_f < N_c-2 there is a runaway potential on the moduli space and no vacuum. For N_f >= N_c-2 there is a moduli space also in the quantum theory, and for N_f >= N_c-1 there is a superconformal fixed point at the origin of this moduli space that has a dual description as the low-energy fixed point of an O(N_f-N_c+2) gauge theory. We test this duality in various ways; in some cases the duality for an O(2) gauge theory may be related to the known duality for U(1) gauge theories. We also discuss real mass deformations, which allow to connect theories with a different Chern-Simons level. This allows us to connect our duality with the known duality in O(N_c) theories with a Chern-Simons term of level k, where the dual gauge group is given by O(N_f+|k|-N_c+2).
Aharony Ofer
Shamir Itamar
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