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Title: Level/rank duality and Chern-Simons-matter theories

Abstract

We discuss in detail level/rank duality in three-dimensional Chern-Simons theories and various related dualities in three-dimensional Chern-Simons-matter theories. We couple the dual Lagrangians to appropriate background fields (including gauge fields, spin c connections and the metric). The non-trivial maps between the currents and the line operators in the dual theories is accounted for by mixing of these fields. In order for the duality to be valid we must add finite counterterms depending on these background fields. This analysis allows us to resolve a number of puzzles with these dualities, to provide derivations of some of them, and to find new consistency conditions and relations between them. In addition, we find new level/rank dualities of topological Chern-Simons theories and new dualities of Chern-Simons-matter theories, including new boson/boson and fermion/fermion dualities.

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  1. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
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Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1434620
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0009988
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2016; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Chern-Simons Theories; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Nonperturbative Effects; Topological Field Theories

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Hsin, Po-Shen, and Seiberg, Nathan. Level/rank duality and Chern-Simons-matter theories. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP09(2016)095.
Hsin, Po-Shen, & Seiberg, Nathan. Level/rank duality and Chern-Simons-matter theories. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2016)095
Hsin, Po-Shen, and Seiberg, Nathan. Fri . "Level/rank duality and Chern-Simons-matter theories". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2016)095. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1434620.
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title = {Level/rank duality and Chern-Simons-matter theories},
author = {Hsin, Po-Shen and Seiberg, Nathan},
abstractNote = {We discuss in detail level/rank duality in three-dimensional Chern-Simons theories and various related dualities in three-dimensional Chern-Simons-matter theories. We couple the dual Lagrangians to appropriate background fields (including gauge fields, spin c connections and the metric). The non-trivial maps between the currents and the line operators in the dual theories is accounted for by mixing of these fields. In order for the duality to be valid we must add finite counterterms depending on these background fields. This analysis allows us to resolve a number of puzzles with these dualities, to provide derivations of some of them, and to find new consistency conditions and relations between them. In addition, we find new level/rank dualities of topological Chern-Simons theories and new dualities of Chern-Simons-matter theories, including new boson/boson and fermion/fermion dualities.},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP09(2016)095},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 9,
volume = 2016,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Sep 16 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Fri Sep 16 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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