Self-Dual N=1 SUSY Gauge Theories

TL;DR

This paper introduces numerous new self-dual N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories, revealing complex duality structures and the importance of accidental IR symmetries, with implications for understanding gauge theory dualities.

Contribution

The paper provides a comprehensive set of new self-dual N=1 SUSY gauge theories, expanding the landscape of known dualities and exploring their properties and interrelations.

Findings

Many theories have multiple duals

Accidental IR symmetries are significant in duality

No simple pattern relates duals across different flavor numbers

Abstract

We present a large set of new self-dual N=1 SUSY gauge theories. Examples include SU(N) theories with tensors and SO(N) theories with spinors. Using these dualities as starting points, new non-trivial duals can be derived by higgsing the gauge group or by integrating out matter. General lessons that can be learned from these duals are: ``accidental" infrared symmetries play an important role in duality, many theories have more than one ``dual", and there seems to be no simple organizing pattern which relates duals of theories with different number of flavors.