4d mirror-like dualities

Abstract

We construct a family of $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=1$ theories that we call $E_{\rho }^{\sigma }[USp(2N)]$ which exhibit a novel type of $4d$ IR duality very reminiscent of the mirror duality enjoyed by the $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ $T_{\rho }^{\sigma }[SU(N)]$ theories. We obtain the $E_{\rho }^{\sigma }[USp(2N)]$ theories from the recently introduced $E[USp(2N)]$ theory, by following the RG flow initiated by vevs labelled by partitions $\rho$ and $\sigma$ for two operators transforming in the antisymmetric representations of the $USp(2N)\times USp(2N)$ IR symmetries of the $E[USp(2N)]$ theory. These vevs are the $4d$ uplift of the ones we turn on for the moment maps of $T[SU(N)]$ to trigger the flow to $T_{\rho }^{\sigma }[SU(N)]$. Indeed the $E[USp(2N)]$ theory, upon dimensional reduction and suitable real mass deformations, reduces to the $T[SU(N)]$ theory. In order to study the RG flows triggered by the vevs we develop a new strategy based on the duality webs of the $T[SU(N)]$ and $E[USp(2N)]$ theories.

85 pages, 26 figures; v2: version published on JHEP