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

Journal

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 2, Pages -

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2017)072

Keywords

Chern-Simons Theories; Conformal Field Theory; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Topological States of Matter

Funding

  1. I-CORE program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee
  2. Israel Science Foundation [1937/12]
  3. Israel Science Foundation center for excellence grant
  4. Minerva foundation
  5. Federal German Ministry for Education and Research
  6. Henri Gutwirth award from the Henri Gutwirth Fund for the Promotion of Research
  7. ISF within the ISF-UGC joint research program framework [1200/14]
  8. MIUR-SIR [RBSI1471GJ]
  9. INFN
  10. IBM Einstein Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study
  11. Physics Department of Princeton University
  12. DOE [DE-SC0009988]

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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).

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