Flowing from 16 to 32 Supercharges

Abstract

We initiate a study of an infinite set of renormalization group flows with accidental supersymmetry enhancement. The ultraviolet fixed points are strongly interacting four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) with no known Lagrangian descriptions, and the infrared fixed points are SCFTs with thirty-two (Poincaré plus special) supercharges.

arXiv comment10 figures, 21 pages, v2: references added, minor typos corrected, results unchanged

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