Evidence for Aharony duality for orthogonal gauge groups

TL;DR

This paper provides evidence for Aharony duality in 3D N=2 supersymmetric theories with orthogonal gauge groups by matching partition functions and superconformal indices.

Contribution

It extends Aharony duality to orthogonal gauge groups and verifies it through exact calculations of partition functions and indices.

Findings

Partition functions on S^3 match for dual theories

Superconformal indices agree perfectly

Supports Aharony duality for orthogonal groups

Abstract

We study the Aharony duality for three dimensional $\mathcal N=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories for orthogonal gauge groups with matters in vector representation. We provide the evidence for the duality by working out the partition function on $S^3$ and the superconformal index, which show perfect agreement.