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Argyres, Philip C.; Lü, Yongchao; Martone, Mario

Seiberg-Witten geometries for Coulomb branch chiral rings which are not freely generated. (English) Zbl 1380.81381

J. High Energy Phys. 2017, No. 6, Paper No. 144, 39 p. (2017).
Summary: Coulomb branch chiral rings of \(\mathcal{N}=2 \) SCFTs are conjectured to be freely generated. While no counter-example is known, no direct evidence for the conjecture is known either. We initiate a systematic study of SCFTs with Coulomb branch chiral rings satisfying non-trivial relations, restricting our analysis to rank 1. The main result of our study is that (rank-1) SCFTs with non-freely generated CB chiral rings when deformed by relevant deformations, always flow to theories with non-freely generated CB rings. This implies that if they exist, they must thus form a distinct subset under RG flows. We also find many interesting characteristic properties that these putative theories satisfy which may behelpful in proving or disproving their existence using other methods.

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MSC:

81T60 Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics
81T40 Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics

Keywords:

conformal and W symmetry; conformal field theory; extended supersymmetry
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