Exceptional Chern-Simons-Matter dualities
- Creators
- Córdova, Clay
- Hsin, Po-Shen
- Ohmori, Kantaro
Abstract
We use conformal embeddings involving exceptional affine Kac-Moody algebras to derive new dualities of three-dimensional topological field theories. These generalize the familiar level-rank duality of Chern-Simons theories based on classical gauge groups to the setting of exceptional gauge groups. For instance, one duality sequence we discuss is (E_N)₁↔SU(9−N)₋₁.Others such as SO(3)₈↔PSU(3)₋₆, are dualities among theories with classical gauge groups that arise due to their embedding into an exceptional chiral algebra. We apply these equivalences between topological field theories to conjecture new boson-boson Chern-Simons matter dualities. We also use them to determine candidate phase diagrams of time-reversal invariant G2G2 gauge theory coupled to either an adjoint fermion, or two fundamental fermions.
Additional Information
© 2019 C. Córdova et al. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Published by the SciPost Foundation. Received 31-07-2019; Accepted 18-10-2019; Published 28-10-2019. We thank N. Seiberg for discussions. C.C. is supported by DOE grant de-sc0009988. P.-S.H. is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics, under Award Number DE-SC0011632, and by the Simons Foundation through the Simons Investigator Award. K.O. is supported by NSF Grant PHY-1606531 and the Paul Dirac fund.Attached Files
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- 100418
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20191223-143452847
- DE-SC0009988
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- DE-SC0011632
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- Simons Foundation
- PHY-1606531
- NSF
- Paul Dirac Fund
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2019-12-23Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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- Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics