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Theory Group
Theory Group Seminar, 31 March 2009


Xi Yin, Harvard University

Chern-Simons-Matter Theory and Mirror Symmetry

abstract

We argue that a class of three-dimensional conformal field theories that arise as IR fixed points of N=4 QED have a Lagrangian description in terms of Chern-Simons-matter theories. In the two-flavor case, the 3D mirror symmetry which exchanges the Coulomb and Higgs branches of the theory, is manifest in the Chern-Simons-matter description.



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