Chern-Simons-matter dualities with SO and USp gauge groups

Ofer Aharony, Francesco Benini, Po-Shen Hsin, Nathan Seiberg

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Abstract

In the last few years several dualities were found between the low-energy behaviors of Chern-Simons-matter theories with unitary gauge groups coupled to scalars, and similar theories coupled to fermions. In this paper we generalize those dualities to orthogonal and symplectic gauge groups. In particular, we conjecture dualities between SO(N)(k) Chern-Simons theories coupled to N-f real scalars in the fundamental representation, and SO(k)(-N+Nf/2) theories coupled to N-f real (Majorana) fermions in the fundamental. For N-f = 0 these are just level-rank dualities of pure Chern-Simons theories, whose precise form we clarify. They lead us to propose new gapped boundary states of topological insulators and superconductors. For k = 1 we get an interesting low-energy duality between N-f free Majorana fermions and an SO(N)(1) Chern-Simons theory coupled to N-f scalar fields (with N-f ≤ N − 2).
Original languageEnglish
Article number72
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2017
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Feb 2017

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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