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Duality between \( \mathcal{N}=5 \) and \( \mathcal{N}=6 \) Chern-Simons matter theory

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We provide evidences for the duality between \( \mathcal{N}=6\,U{(M)_4}\times U{(N)_{-4 }} \) Chern-Simons matter theory and \( \mathcal{N}=5\,O{{\left( {\widehat{M}} \right)}_2}\times U\,Sp{{\left( {2\widehat{N}} \right)}_{-1 }} \) theory for a suitable \( \widehat{M},\widehat{N} \) by working out the superconformal index, which shows perfect matching. For \( \mathcal{N}=5 \) theories, we show that supersymmetry is enhanced to \( \mathcal{N}=6 \) by explicitly constructing monopole operators filling in SO(6) R R-currents. Finally we work out the large N index of O(2N)2k × U Sp(2N)−k and show that it exactly matches with the gravity index on AdS 4 × S 7 /D k , which further provides additional evidence for the duality between the \( \mathcal{N}=5 \) and \( \mathcal{N}=6 \) theory for k = 1.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy & Center for Theoretical Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-747, Korea

    Sangmo Cheon

  2. Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, 130-012, Korea

    Dongmin Gang

  3. Department of Physics, POSTECH, Pohang, 790-784, Korea

    Chiung Hwang & Jaemo Park

  4. Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, 790-784, Korea

    Satoshi Nagaoka

  5. Postech Center for Theoretical Physics (PCTP), Postech, Pohang, 790-784, Korea

    Jaemo Park

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Cheon, S., Gang, D., Hwang, C. et al. Duality between \( \mathcal{N}=5 \) and \( \mathcal{N}=6 \) Chern-Simons matter theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 9 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2012)009

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