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Comments on scaling limits of 4d N=2 theories
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Comments on scaling limits of 4d N=2 theories

Abstract

We revisit the study of the maximally singular point in the Coulomb branch of 4d N=2 SU(N) gauge theory with N_f=2n flavors for N_f<2N. When n >= 2, we find that the low-energy physics is described by two non-trivial superconformal field theories coupled to a magnetic SU(2) gauge group which is infrared free. (In the special case n=2, one of these theories is a theory of free hypermultiplets.) This observation removes a possible counter example to a conjectured a-theorem.

Authors

Gaiotto D; Seiberg N; Tachikawa Y

Publication date

November 20, 2010

DOI

10.48550/arxiv.1011.4568

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arXiv
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