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QCD3 with two-index quarks, mirror symmetry, and fivebrane anti-BIons near orientifolds

Adi Armoni and Vasilis Niarchos
Phys. Rev. D 98, 114009 – Published 12 December 2018

Abstract

We consider a nonsupersymmetric Hanany-Witten type IIB brane configuration that realizes a three-dimensional USp(2N) gauge theory with quarks in the two-index antisymmetric representation and SO(4) flavor symmetry. Using type IIB S-duality we find the mirror dual, an SO(2N1) field theory with scalars in the antisymmetric representation. Analyzing the magnetic dual, we study the vacuum structure of the USp(2N) model and propose that the SO(4) global symmetry is unbroken. In order to support our proposal we present an SO(4) symmetric BIon configuration that describes anti–D3 branes polarizing into fivebranes in the S-dual Hanany-Witten setup. We also comment on dynamical flavor symmetry breaking in other QCD3 theories with quarks in two-index representations.

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  • Received 29 August 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.114009

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Particles & Fields

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Adi Armoni1,* and Vasilis Niarchos2,†

  • 1Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park SA2 8PP, United Kingdom
  • 2Department of Mathematical Sciences and Center for Particle Theory, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom

  • *a.armoni@swansea.ac.uk
  • vasileios.niarchos@durham.ac.uk

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Vol. 98, Iss. 11 — 1 December 2018

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