2020/03/16 by Ivan Garozzo, Noppadol Mekareeya, Matteo Sacchi +1
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Duality (order theory) #Gauge symmetry #Gauge theory #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quiver #S-duality #Seiberg duality #Supersymmetric gauge theory #Supersymmetry #Symmetry (geometry) #T-duality #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep06(2020)159
41 pages with a number of figures
arxiv created 2020/03/16 · openalex created_date 2020/03/23 · openalex publication_date 2020/06/25 · arxiv updated 2020/07/15 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
A bstract Gauge theories in four dimensions can exhibit interesting low energy phenomena, such as infrared enhancements of global symmetry. We explore a class of 4d N <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> </mml:math> = 1 gauge theories arising from a construction that is motivated by duality walls in 5d gauge theories. Their quiver descriptions bear a resemblance to 4d theories obtained by compactifying 6d N <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> </mml:math> = (1 , 0) superconformal field theories on a torus with fluxes, but with lower number of flavours and different number of gauge singlets and superpotentials. One of the main features of these theories is that they exhibit a flavour symmetry enhancement, and with supersymmetry enhancement for certain models, in the infrared. Properties of the superconformal fixed points of such theories are investigated in detail.