22–26 Jun 2026
Richard Roberts Auditorium
Europe/London timezone

Planar abelian mirror duals of 3d Chern-Simons matter theories

22 Jun 2026, 11:45
35m
Richard Roberts Auditorium

Richard Roberts Auditorium

13 Brook Hill, Sheffield S3 7HF

Speaker

Sara Pasquetti (Milan-Bicocca University)

Description

We show that a broad class of 3d N=2 chiral Chern-Simons matter theories admit an abelian and planar dual description.
These chiral-planar dualities emerge by performing real "axial" mass deformations on known N=4 mirror pairs, to flow to chiral theories on the electric side. While identifying the correct dual vacuum is subtle due to the rich structure of the Coulomb branch, we develop a mirror dualization algorithm that streamlines this process and systematically provides the abelian-planar duals of chiral quivers.
Building on these SUSY results, we propose a planar abelian dual of 3d QCD with bosons and fermions.

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