Saturday, February 7, 2015

Some questions about flavour and R-symmetry in 2+1 calN=3 theory





  • I have heard this fact that for N=3 theories in 2+1 with Nf N=3 matter fields the flavour symmetry group is USp(Nf), U(Nf) or SO(2Nf) depending on whether the gauge representation in which it is lying is real (like adjoint) or complex (like fundamental) or pseudoreal.


    I would like to know of the proof (or reference) for the above.




The following questions stem from, this paper.




  • If I use the notation of ϕ1 and ϕ2 for the N=2 chiral multiplets in which the N=3 splits into (why? how?) then at least for the fundamental case why is ϕ1 and ¯ϕ2 in the same flavour representation?



    I guess I can legitimately use the notation of ϕ1 and ϕ2 to denote what is called ˜Q and Q on page 7 section 2.2 of the above. Their notation seems to denote that there is some relationship between the fields ˜Q and Q which I think is not true.



    • If ϕ1 and ϕ2 N=2 multiplets are in the same N=3 multiplet then why are ϕ1 and ¯ϕ2 in the same flavour representation and their respective conjugates in the conjugate flavour representation?




Apparently this has got to do with two facts,




  • that the coupling is (ϕ1Taϕ2)2 in the deforming potential to N=2 (..equation 2.9 in the paper linked above..)





  • and that the SU(2) R-symmetry of N=3 rotates in a spin-1/2 representation the 2-tuples (ϕ2,ϕ1), and (¯ϕ1,¯ϕ2) (..equation A.2 page 31 of the above linked paper..)


    And what is the explicit action of the SU(2) R-symmetry which rotates the above 2-tuples? And around the above equation A.2 why is are these two 2-tuples called "scalrs"? Aren't they full N=2 chiral multiplets?






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