Lattice Construction of Duality with Non-Abelian Gauge Fields in 2+1D

TL;DR

This paper extends lattice construction methods to establish dualities involving non-Abelian gauge fields in 2+1D, specifically demonstrating an exact duality between an $SO(3)$ gauge theory with matter and a free Majorana fermion.

Contribution

It introduces a lattice framework for non-Abelian dualities, generalizing previous Abelian constructions to $SO(3)$ and $O(3)$ gauge theories in 2+1D.

Findings

Derived an exact lattice duality between $SO(3)$ gauge theory with matter and free Majorana fermion.

Connected lattice duality to infrared duality in continuum field theories.

Generalized the construction to models with $O(3)$ gauge fields.

Abstract

The lattice construction of Euclidean path integrals has been a successful approach of deriving 2+1D field theory dualities with a U$(1)$ gauge field. In this work, we generalize this lattice construction to dualities with non-Abelian gauge fields. We construct the Euclidean spacetime lattice path integral for a theory with strongly-interacting $SO(3)$ vector bosons and Majorana fermions coupled to an $SO(3)$ gauge field and derive an exact duality between this theory and the theory of a free Majorana fermion on the spacetime lattice. We argue that this lattice duality implies the desired infrared duality between the field theory with an $SO(3)$ vector critical boson coupled to an $SO(3)_1$ Chern-Simons gauge theory, and a free massless Majorana fermion in 2+1D. We also generalize the lattice construction of dualities to models with $O(3)$ gauge fields.