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Redeeming bad theories

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (2013)

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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS

Volume -, Issue 11, Pages -

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SPRINGER

DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2013)189

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Supersymmetry and Duality; Supersymmetric gauge theory; Extended Supersymmetry

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Physics, Particles & Fields

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NSF [PHY-0756966]
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Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0756966] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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We give a Seiberg-like dual description of the interacting superconformal infrared fixed point of N - 4 gauge theory in three dimensions with vanishing Chern Simons level and N-c <= N-f < 2N(c) fundamental flavors. These theories are known as bad theories due to the existence of unitarity violating monopole operators. We show that, in a dual description, all such operators are realized by free fields and the remainder theory is the Seiberg-like dual previously identified using the type IIB brane construction.

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