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arxiv: 1609.02149 · v2 · pith:RPENTAMHnew · submitted 2016-09-07 · ✦ hep-th · cond-mat.str-el

Nonsupersymmetric dualities from mirror symmetry

classification ✦ hep-th cond-mat.str-el
keywords dualitiesmirrorsymmetrytheoriesdualfindfreenon-supersymmetric
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We study supersymmetry breaking perturbations of the simplest dual pair of 2+1-dimensional N = 2 supersymmetric field theories -- the free chiral multiplet and N = 2 super-QED with a single flavor. We find dual descriptions of a phase diagram containing four distinct massive phases. The equivalence of the intervening critical theories gives rise to several non-supersymmetric avatars of mirror symmetry: we find dualities relating scalar QED to a free fermion and Wilson-Fisher theories to both scalar and fermionic QED. Thus, mirror symmetry can be viewed as the multicritical parent duality from which these non-supersymmetric dualities directly descend.

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